Headquarters Annap 10^th Reg’t. Co. B

                                    Camp Burnside Dec 5^th 1861

 

Dear Jennie

                        I received your letter last night & was very glad to hear from you though I did not expect to get one from you quite so soon

 

            You say that we could not injoy a good Thanksgiving dinner supper well we may not have had quite so good a one as you did but the our friends in Manchester sent us three turkeys & we had a good supper though it was on / Saturday instead of Thanksgiving

 

            But it tasted just as good as it had been on that day & there was some frosted cakes with the rest that I forgot to mention & potatoes turnips apples & a few other things & taking all of them together we had quite a good supper & injoyed as well I think as we should if we had been to home

 

            You sent me a piece of paper stating that we should leave here in a short time & you say you hope not but I hope we shall for I have got tired of staying here & want to go where there is some fighting

 

            We shall probaly leave here in two weeks at the furtherest & then you dont expect to see me after that again but you can here from me & write to me for letters will come there as well as they do here

 

            Now Jennie if I should not / get back you have got your my picture to look at I am not afraid to go & I would not come back to M— if I could I shall go & if I am killed I shall die in a good caus & that is fighting for my country

 

            Now Jennie you do not think that I would trifle with your friends so much as to lett some one els read your letters but my self I hope not But your picture the boys in my tent have seen that I could not help for there is ten men stay in one of these little tents & when I took it out of the letter they was on all sides of me & I could not help seeing there seeing it I hope you will forgive me for that but your letters cannot be seen by any one but myself

 

            We have a Sunday school down here in the tenth reg is that not / nice

 

            But I must close now for it is about time to go out on battalion drill from

yours truly write soon

                                    Willie

 

PS You see that picture on the front page well that is the way we shall be storming those forts down south when we get there where they are

                                                            Yours &c

                                                                        Willie

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