In Camp Near Little Rock Ark

                                                                                                Aug 20^th /64

 

Sister Martha

having received your much wellcom letter of July 20^th I will try and answer it as best I can. I am well and hope this will find you the Same.

 

we have just returned from a twelve days scout. it rained on us every day m thare has not been but one or two days in this month that has not rained while we was and we only lacked two hours at one place of ketching 12 hundred men we had no fiting only skermishing and very litle of that the rebels is now almost every side of us thay com within th ten and twelve miles of this place from three to five hundred / think will untill we get a new Commander our Regt lost last month a bout niney (90) men in kiled wounded and takin prisoner as I supose you have heard ere this. So you can see that we are not Idle. the last scout of two we have been on thare has been plenty of rosting ears for us to get. you wold laugh to see the boys charge on the watermilions patches that we com a cros. well what do you thin of the war by this time. I understand that the copperheads is geting rather bold in som parts of Ills. how are thay in Manard when you write tell me all a bout what is going on and also what for crops you have rased this year I can think of nothing of importance to write to you. thare is nothing / will close first how do you like the place that is cald back of the field by this time. has Arthur been going to Scool this somer any.

 

I found Sam young mocking birds a fiew days before I started out on the last scout. I wud to get them and send them home but while I was gon the halks took them. thay are worth from forty to sixty dolers a pair here I would have give almost any thing to have got them home. while the old one was sitting the other one was singing night and day. how I know so well I was sick and takin medison. I had to keepe a wake to take the medison. thay are a difernt kind of a bird from the mocking bird in Ill. and sing different.

 

write often for I am always ancious to hear from you            J E Jenison

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