Natchez Mississipp Oct 1^st/63

                                                                                                            Monday morning

 

Sister Mary

                        Your last letter dated Sept 20 was received on the fifth Oct it was a good while comeing through. It brought the sade news that father was dead. You spoke about my comeing home I went to the Captain and he told me that they had shut down on giving fourloughs. It was not but a fiew days before one of our Lieutenants was around takeing doun the names for fourlough the papers have come and they start home to morrow there is five of them. Four men started for Columbus last week for Conscripts fifty in/ number one of them was Sargent Hunt he will go home after he gets to Columbus I guess. Mr Pope from the old clid[?] is one of the men that is a going home on a fourlough he sais he shall go to Madison if he does you can send a pare of boots by him if you choose I can get boots here but they are not so good as those from the old shop. I surpose that the bisness is going on just as the same as it use to is it not. I think that Jobe Tailor would be a good man to have in the shop to settle up and do bisness Who have you got in the shop any one out of the family if so tell me when you answer this./

 

            I have been quite unwell for a fiew days back troubled with the Chill feaver I am in hopes that I have got it broke up on me but cant tell yet I have taken quinine enough to kill or cure it makes me a little weak but I am doing duty so it is not serious. We changed camp last week and I drove mules all day in the hot sun and it fetched it on to me again I had it broke up once. We have had a little change in the battery since I last wrote you we have not had but to Lieutenants since Crowell and Burrows left the battery untill now our quartermaster sargent and ordely sargent have been promoted to Lieutenants. We were orgernized as a 6 Gund Battery/ and for that reason the Captain sais that they will draw Lieut pay from the time that Crowell and Burrows was discharged from the battery if so it will be a good thing on their side. We like this place very much we are in camp on a small hill a half of a mile from Town the Citty is reviveing very much since the Yankees have come. I went to the Baptis church yesterday in town it was the nisest church that ever I was in and the only one since I have been in the survise I am a going to attend very sunday once a day. How is Mother getting along with her neuralgia tell her that she must not worry her self.

 

I will tell Mr Pope to go in and see you maby it will be some consolation to Ma. Write soon

 

                                                                                                Yours            George Wood

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