Camp Jefferson

                                                                                                            January the 9 1862

 

            Dear Friend Isaac Pery I take my pen in hand to writing yow a few lines to let yow now that I am well at presant and hoping these few lines will find yow enjoing the same helth but Isaac I will tell you a bout the times here times is very good but I think that there will be a fite pirty soone for we have got a bout 90 thousand men here now and they are a coming in all the time but there is a good eal ove artillry there is a bout 4 hundard peases of canons here but old buckner ses that he is a going to eate his / diner in Louisvill but be fore he gets to eate eney diner in Louisvill I think that Old Joseph Hunt will try his rifel on his skelp but old J Hunt is not skird yet but Isaac I am all write but old buckner has got a bout 25 thousand Rebles at Bolen Green but we haird that they had retreated back but they have retreated back a bout 20 miles but oure men is advancen on them all the time but the Rail Road runs clean to Bolen Green but the Rebles has blode up a tunel and hit will take ouse a good while to clean hit out but the Rebles has tore up the track but oure men / is a putting hit down a gain but when we get in a bout 10 miles ove them we want to get all a round them and take them all prisners but Isaac I think that this war wont last but a litle while for we got one ove old Buckner Nigars & he ses that pirty near all the men has quit and gon home & he sed that Jeff davis was a inlisting men for 2 months but Isaac when yow write to me tell me whethe wether Joseph Bets is in Barnesvill or not for he run off & stold a bout 40 dolars worth ove clothes from / luittenant Paterson and if he is a warin Solgers clothes take them of ove him for he stold them so that is all at presant

 

Soe give my best respecks to all of my frends write soone & direct youre leter to Elisebth Town Ky in care of capton

                                    J H Wing Co B

                                    3^rd ohio redgt

                                                            OVM

 

                        write soone to yours

            Owen Moore

 

                        to Isaac Pery

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