August ^the 3^rd 63

                                                                                                                        a garden the

                                                                                                                                    road

                                                                                    Camp in 21 miles of falmouth

 

                                                                                                            Dear Parents

Itis with pleasure that i seat my self to right you a few lines to let you know how I am a getting a long I am well at present and hop to here the same from youns we halve had this years Potatoes and beans and ripe apples and lots of black beries we are a laying on the main road from Warington to falmouth agarding it they say that the seckond corps has a line 20 miles long to gard they send out some men every day from each briggade to forage they got 80 bushels of oats from one man they dont pay any thing for what they get here for the most of / the men is in the rebble army they halve bin drafted since the last rade the women is hot sesesh here I went out the other day while i was on picket and got my diner at a house there was a woman and three children her husband was in the reb army and when i was dun eating i set back from the table and asked the bill she said she did not charge any thing I told her that I had both kind of money and i oferd her the reb money she looked at it and then at the green back and said she would take the green back i gave her a 25 cents I had potatoes and Green beans for diner we halve had severel messes of potatoes since we stopped her the sutlers is acomeing to us now there is a good many / of them a getting took up on the road by the Girilies there was one of our sutler wagons was captered the other night the Giriles thick here we halve not seen the Drimers since the fight the rest of the boys is well at present so I will close

 

for the present i still remain

your sun                                                                                              George. W. Carter

                                                                                                Grayson Carter

 

please wright soon

 

                        seaph. Sharp. was.

                        wounded in the legg bad

                        they boys is all a getting

                        along very well that was

                        wounde

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