Camp Jeferson Feb 6eth

 

Dear Brother I recived your letter a short time since I was very glad to hear that you were all well at home there is not much going on here now there is not m a good many troops here and it raines a bout half of the time and it makes it very bad getting a round on a count of the mud the country around here is very full of curiosities we were out on picket last sunday it hailed and rained all day and night but I will try and dscribe the place we were in we were stationed about 2 and 1/2 miles from our camp on a road that leads to bowling green/ the country but it is very mountanious my post was at an old meeting house at least we would call it old in the east but they call it a pretty nice house here there has been no mettings held ther since the war comenced it is a Methodist church but it has sufed sum since the war comenced the land is rocky around about this place about one hundread yards from the church there is a crick you follow the crick west for a short distance and you hear a kind of busing like a swarm of bees it gets lowder as you go along and you find thoat it proceeds from a small hole in the ground which is rite/ beside the path you put your ear down to it and it roars like thunder a weigh of under the rocks as you go along you keep hearing it in diferent places and finely it pours out in to the crick a stream big enough to cary a mill you can hear streames of watter runing underground all about here two miles south of the church is a cave which is about a mile long it runs right streat for half a mile and then it branches to the right and left it is half amile to the end of the right branch there is a nother cave on the east side of our camp of about the same size and the great mamoth cave lays 18een miles south/ west of this there is a great many courious spesimans of rock here to but I surpose it will weary your patiance before you can study this out it is written so bad I will close write when you have time and remember mee to all my old friends from your brother

 

George Colby

Ira Colby Jr

                                                PS

                                    I am well as ever

 

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George Colby

Feb 6 1862      Camp Jeferson

                                    Kentucky

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