Munkton station                                                                                  October the 14 1862

 

Dear father I asume this a nother opportunity to write you a few lines as I received your leter on yesterday and one from mother and they found us injoying good health and I hope when you receive those few lines they will find you all injoying the same blessing and in good sperits the boys are all well and in good sperits I dont think they could injoy their selvs beter at home or eny plase else you spoke in your leter a bout us a coming home if we could get a furlo I would like very much to come home but from the way things is a working i dont think the war will last more than 6 months more at the futhest and I would rather / stay until it is over but if we go in to winter quarters there is some talk of us going back to pitts burgh or to Whealing and if we do I will come home if i can get a furlo there is so meny trying to get furles that I am al most ashame to ask for one there is a bout 135 on the sick list in our regiment the small pocks is I hear is prety bad in a regament a bout 4 miles below us it is the 148 new york We have no case of small pocks yet nor measels the camp feaver is the worst our men have to contend with We have no sickness of eny account but one on last saturday Gen Wool passed here and give us orders to pack up amediatly We packed up and marched to parkton and got there about 7 oClock the hole camp was in a uproar they got / word that there was 16 thousand rebels a marching on to Chambersburgh We stayed in camp until about 8 that night We got a dspatch to re mane their until futher orders and there was a guard sent back to monkton that night and they hadent more than got there until there was a nother dispatch come to hold our selvs in redyness and there was 2 men sent after the guard and they came back that morning a bout 5 oclock and we stayed there until 3 in after non and got orders to go back to monkton We hold our alexion to day I will close until after the vots is counted they are counted now the demo crats hadent their ticket and there was only a bout 9 of them voted and they writ their tickets they come out prety near nun /

 

When we wer at parkton there was one of our men met with an accident the cars stoped below the camp a bout 3 hundred yards and there was some pet bars on them and he was looking at them and as he was in the act of jumping on the cars they started and cot both of his feet and smashed one of them so bad that he had it taken off the other badly bruse ed but with care the doctor thinks it will get well it is the only accident that eny of our men has met with you spoke a bout what you would do with that money you say that no one wants it for less than one year and if eny one wants it fortha length of time that you can get it with out eny dificulty let it go but if you kneed it before that time keep it that is the amount i sent you 55 Dolars George will tell you what to do with his

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