Jan 6^th 1864

                                                                                                Camp near Cedar Mountain

 

Dear Wife

                        I received a kind letter from you this evening it found me well and prospering as useual. I was glad to know that you and Luie ar well to. we have been at work at our tents to day. we will get in to them to morrow I guess. we they ar built like a log hous at home onley smaller. they ar seven feet one way and eleven the other. we should of went in to the ours to day but the mud was not/ dry. I was afraid of caching cold it being so damp before dry. the botom of the chimny is mud and the rest is maid of sticks and mud. we have no way to draw stone so we are sticks and mud. we Soldiers will know how to build Toy Houses I reckon when we get Home. you ask me if I think of Enlisting over I say no not for two thousand dollars and three on top of that. I say when my time will be half out the 11^th of next month it would be vary foolish for me to enlist for a longer time when I am needed so much/ at home, not because I have any thing at home I think any thing of for I have not, but it is because I love you and Luie so well, and I know just how you have sufard since I have been gone and I think it would be a vary crual thing for me to Enlist any longer. Volentering is Played out with me. if Unce Sam will turn me lose to day I will agree not to bother him any more. I under stand our wages ar raised to nine teen dollars and a half I hope so for us privates might as well have more pay as for the Oficeers to have so much/

 

be shure to get the things up there right of if you have not dear Sarah

 

Sarah if you have not sent any things yet you had better get them up to Lorances so Mr Barbers folks can put them in when they fech Charlys down I expect they will pack theyr things and come down to put your things in. I wish you would get a two quort Pail and fill it with some Butter of your own make and put in to it you by any thing to send get some tea and Pepper. we will get our pay some time this month and so what ever you get I will send you the mony to pay for them. dryed Buries ar the nicest     Albert

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