Monkton station oct ^the 19 1862

                                                                                                                        

Dear friends it is with the greatest pleasure that i seate myself to in form you that i am well and also the rest of the boys is well and i hope these few lines will find you injoying the same health i rote aletter in last sunday at Parkton while we was all there redy to march but we got orders to march to monkton the majority of the boys think that we will stay here all winter and if we dont leave here in two weeks we will stay all winter i would as leave stay here unless we go wheeling we halve very good times here now we halve good quarters to stay in if we stay here but if we go to wheeling we will only be fifty seven miles from home and i think that i can get a furlow but if we get one here / It will take twenty five dollars to come home and back we expect to get our pay next week we will get 39 dollars when they pay us off we would of got to go to Close to wheeling the time we starteed jeneral Wool ordered us to go and our kernal told him that we had onley five rounds of Carigees and we had twenty four the is agoing in more for money than any thing else i think the boys is all down on the Captain they are agoing to try to get sweny in as Captain he is the onley one except Cook that is worth any thing stockton wants to sho his a thority to much Elec is the same old Elic just as he said he would do he does he can go out and play with the boys and stockton would not be Catcher / Playing with outh the boys he has stoped us from working for the shoe make him and the shomaker fell out and that is the Couse of it if any of the boys wants apass to go out any plase they go to sweny or Cook the Captain wont give any only the Cross Crick boys they jenerel do as they please when the Captain makes any new rules the boys wont obey them unless he shoes them it in the military book he would like we halve middlen good grub there is lots of men wants us to go and cut up corn for them but the Captain wont let us we onley go on gard every forth night now six stands till twelve oclock and six tall day light /

 

Itis worse with me here laying around than if i was laying around millsboro i would rather be a working there is agrate many men drafted here in this plase and they dont like it very well they would rather give 3000 dolars than go there selves the majority of them is slaveholders one of them has nine farms and nine hundred and ninety nine slaves and they darsent to hire a substitute for they wil be takeing up for treason there is nothing more at present ibe leave onley tell father to do as he pleasees with that money of mine no more But still remain your sun G. W. Carter to his mother and his father and the rest of the family            the same directions

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