March the 28/62

 

Dear Brother

            I take this opertunity to write to you I am well as yet and hope I shall coninue so we are now camped at a town called M Merfersborough tenn. abought 25 Miles from nash vill our camp is caled camp Van buron we have Just returned from a scouting pa expidition we have been about fifty miles below here but we saw nothing of the rebles/ I have not heard how our troops were gitting along in other placs for a fiew days but surpose they are giting along well I wish you would send mee a paper that gives an acount of your town meeting I will send you two or three pieces that I cut out of a see sesh paper to let you see how they talk about us there perhaps you have seen the like before I will not write any more now write soon from your brother

 

                                                                                                            George Colby

Mr Ira Colby/

 

PS Direct your letters to Nash vill Tenn for the presant give my respects to all my friends

 

[another hand]

George Colby

Mar 28 1862

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