Monkton st Oct ^the 22 1862

 

Dear mother it is with the greate est pleasur that i seate my self to scrible you afew lines to let you no that am well and the rest of the Boys is well except E Coneway he is not very well there is two or three in our Company that has your the camp feaver but Coneway has the rheumatics I think that if they would not fret so much about home they would get along much better our boys has bin in good spearits so far and i hope it will remain so i guess we will get to stay here all winter from the report I receaved your letter and Elisey horners and was very well please ed to heare from yous our letters comes regular now agot four the day i got yours and i / halve bin areade ing the morning paper here and see there is aletter in the Baltimore Post office for Carter george I halve bin a tend ing on Esry Coneway yesterday and to day he is agetting i halve only had the use of one of my arms for three or four days ihalve had abile under my left arme and but it is about well now I want you to tell pap to send me apair of boots if Can send them with William horner i could get them here Ifihad the money idont nead them now but i will this winter they ask seven dollars for them here money is carce here but the 148 reg P.V is Joining us on the road they got payed off this week and we are expect to get ours soon / or else we wood send home for some but we dont want to halve so much money here with us if we get payed off be fore W. Horner comes out we will send it home with him I will tell you about my self when i came here to monkton i was sick for two or three weeks when i starte ed from home i wayed 164 pounds but two or three weeks ago i wayd 145 pounds but now i wey about 170 pounds and i halve my healt better than when I was at home William Deams is Con doock ter on the rail road his brothe worked on the schoolhouse in toun There was some body passed along on the Cars and thru aletter of for me it was from R Winters gill it did not say hoo threw it off /

 

The boys all send there best respecks to the sitisens of millsboro Tell pap that to baco is only 100 dolars apound here athis plase and thomas is improve ing in weight also and the rest of the boys the same B. Hawthorn is the hartiest one in the mess I mus close for the present and i still remain your sun

                                                G W Carter

 

and also give my re

specks to all whome               to Casander Carter

Require ing them                                His belove ed

                                                            His mother

 

There is some of the boys in the Company that wants to go home and i for won would like to but there is no use in fretting about home i no that there is no plase like home and i dont want yow to be oneasy about us for we are agetting along as well as if we was at home and of any of us gets sicks we ar tend ed to very well we wont let any of our men go to the hospiddle they half to take the hole Company before we will let any go

 

Yours truly Casander Carter

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