Head-quarters 114, N.Y. Regt

Co. A

Bayou, Rumous

Camp              Febuary 3, 1863

 

Frank my health is prity good now I hope you are well I have not heard from you in A long while I have wrote to you one or two letters a week have you got them or not I would like to know if you receve this letter write whither you have got them or not I have sent you papers every week I pay five cents a peace for them tha bring them oup on the cars every day Horis wood has Benn oup here two Days with ous his fingears are most well he ses that Diania is gonter move in the Red house I would like to know whear you was gonter live you must write and let me know soon. I wrote to Mr Lewis to see that you went to school all the while I am gone and see that you had enough of everything to make you comphorable and see you had A good place to live whear you can go to school let me know whear marting is gonter live this summer and how the Boy gits a long and Mary A Dealia health is I have no news to write you at present till I here from you frank did you ever git that little bottle I handed to Dovas to give you put it in the Beaurow Safe our lieutenant gilbert is sick our first sagrent and four corperles and ten privates also and grate many of the company home sick so tha are most dead tha would give all of thear old boots and shoues to git home it is A grate lesson to them it is A little tougher school than tha war ruster go to it dos me good to here them mourn and complain all of no youse to them I tell them it will come out all wright in the spring when tha git the Returns from thear Butter                   Febuary 5. have just come out of gard it 4 o’clock in the morning it has rained all night hard thunder and lightning to I am some wet wall that is nothing what is to have twins I think you have forgoten me that you dont write to me I begin to think theare is A mistake some wheare I ounderstood that a mail vessil arrived yesterday from newyork if so probley I shall git some letters or papers plenty of flees, misqeatoes, lise, Eatch, and nigers and wentches, and all other reptiles aligators panthears and Bears I aint mention half

 

                                                                                    Asa Holmes

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