Camp Distribution Va

                                                                                    January 4^th 1865

 

My Dear Father

            your kind & welcom letter came at hand to day I was glad to hear from you this leaves me well & hope these few lines will find you the same

 

I received also a letter from my friend in Portland. they ar all well at the present time well father in regard to sending me a box I should like one sent very much but as to sending me a pair of boots you need not for I have drawed a pair of Goverment boots am a going to get them taped / they will do me this winter well enough well father I know that you will do all you can for me if you can get me a cheap little box I would like it very much just a taste from Home it would sute me

 

send a little butter little chease a turkey if can be got nutcakes & a few mince pyes little bit tobacto

 

a few pickles & the rest in aples that is all I can think of & enough prehaps more then I had aut to send for father I do not think low of you a toll if you do not send me a box a toll do as you think best & that will be all right it will sute me

 

I would think more of the / Turkey then eny thing else put a good lot of stuffing in it mother when you cook it mother I want you to cook it & when I think am a eatting it I will think of you you need not send eny dryed apple

 

you need not send a very big box send what other thing you ar a mind to well we have got a good batch of snow on the ground now a bout 5 inches

 

I went over to washington yestday on a pass

 

we will get payed in a bout 15 dayes the pay rools have not yet from the front yet the Pay master expected them in every day & thought likeley / he could pay me

 

I will send you some money then I do not know yet wheather I shall get my installment or not well father if you meake up your mind to send me a box send it & soon as you can send a letter by mail when you do the box so I can look for it have you received thos pictures yet that I sent you the battle of wildness & Genl Grant

 

well I cannot think of eny more in this I must rite once more I am in a great hury write soon so good by

                                    from your son

                                     Lowell W Haven

 

To Father & Mother

 

Direct as before

send the box soon

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