140^th Regt. Pennsylvania Volunteers, Col. Richard P. Roberts,

Company K

December the 21^st 1862

 

Dear father it is with much pleasure I take my pen in hand this morning to inform you that We are all well at this time and hope those few lines may find you all enjoying the best of health and in good sperits. We are at fallmouth virginia We landed here yesterday a bout 5 O clock and We are in a bout a mile and a half of the rebels battries they are in sight and We are camped on a knob in direct rang with their baterrys I dont know how long we will stay here We are a going in to yorks Birgade / Hancocks Devision sumners Core and likely We may leave here on to moro and likely make our winter quarters here it is likely we may leave here on to moro We lost a good meny men here at fredricks burgh I have not heard the exact loss of our men or the enimies loss but ours was the greatest the Way they are stationed it is hard mater for our men to get to them they have to Clime a hill in frunt of their battiries our men that was in the ingagement was payed of a few days before they went into it and after the ingagement was over our men wanted to go on to the field with a flag of trouce and they wouldent let them in until they robed the dead and wounded all of this that I have writen is just what I have heard since we came here I dont know whether it is the / or not I cant say I receiveed a leter from you at Washington sity with 3 Dolars in it and one from mother at the same time and one from Hariet at the same and I will write as soon as I can get time We was glad to hear from you all and hear you was well our box is lost I guess I soon come to a close and let George finish the leter I will Close but remane yours ever Thomas to father and the rest So good by for this time

 

Well Parents isit doun to rit you a few lines to let you no that i am well except the diarear i halve had it for two or three days but it is agetting better i cant te ell you where we are but we are about one mile from the enmies batterey and we are stationed in rang with there batries but / we are just a laying here over sunday and are a going to make log huts to stay in this winter the enmy could shell us where we lay but they say that they wont fire on us if if dont on them i will tell you about me getting lost when we came here we came along the rail road a part of the road and i got to walking on the rail road and the regament left the road and i kep on the road and travle ed about 5 miles and come to the station and seen to oficers from the regment and they was lost to and we starteed the direction that we last seen them and about 2 miles and it was very cold the wind blew hard the oficers told me to go and stay by the fire at a camp and they would hunt the regment and come back for me but i starte ed after they got out of site and went about 1 mile and found the regment i think you had better direct to

 

                                                Washinton city

                                                            and Put forward on

                                                Nomore at present but remain

                                                            your sun G W Carter

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