Headquarters Annap 10^th Regt

                                                                                                            Co B

                                                                                    Camp Burn[?]side Nov 11^th 1861

 

Friend Jennie

                        I now seat myself to write you a few lines according to promise.

 

            We are now in camp about the same distance out of the city of Annapolis that we were out of Hartford when we was incamped there and it is also about as muddy when it rains & we have to lay on the bare ground to, so it is not hardly as good as it was there for we had a floor there but we go out in the woods & cut spruce boughs & lay them on the ground & then make our beds on them so we get along quite comfortable We arrived here in the city after three days & four night’s journey / by land & water & reached here earley Monday morning & marched up to a nice large brick college where we slept stayed all night & untill the next night when we marched in to camp where we are at present (when we was at the college I slept in what I should think was meant for a writing room as it was full of seats & desk’s & the seats was full of soldiers while we staid there a writing to there friends & I wrote two letters there in college only think of it

 

            There was a fellow stabed here last week through the leg by a fellow who undertook to run the guard & the one that is stabed is in the hospital & the one that stabed him is in the guard house & will be likely be shot

 

            How are all the folks in Manchester & how do you get along a playing the organ I suppose you have got to be an experience player by this time I tell you what I / wish you would do if I you can that is play America or Foord[?] next Sunday & write & let me know whether you did or not

 

            We have just been through dressparade & eat supper (we had soft bread & coffee to night & it is the first soft bread that we have had since we have been here it has all been hard bread

 

            But I must close for it is all most roll call & I shall have to go out then & answer to my name then come in & go to bed so now adue for the present give my love to the Scott girls & all the rest of the choir I send you a letter photograph of mine inclosed here & I hope you will send me one of yours

 

                                                            Yours sincerely

                                                                        W^m L Norton

 

PS Direct to Care Capt Hudson

10^th Rig Co B Annapolis Md

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