April 11. 1863

 

Dear Father and Mother

                                    I received your letter of the 30. last night and will try and answer it now I am well as usual it is very warm here in the daytime but rather chilley nights we are encamped clost to a small river I do not know the name of it it runs very fast it is full of very larg fish some of them will weigh 150 to 200 pounds they call them Buffaloes such hooks as them you sent me would not catch them or if it did it would not hold them very long

 

Companys G, B and K went down the river on a kind of a scout they gathered up all the canoes and flats they could find and wednesday night at twelve oclock they started down the river I did not go with them on the acount of just coming / in from guarding a cotton train to Millikens bend they went down the river a bout 15 or 20 miles where they found a cotton gin with 143 bales of cotton in it they loaded up with cotton and started back they brought up 65 bales of the cotton and 50 bushels of salt a barrel of rum and one of molases and a lot of hams and chickens and turkeys they say the country out there is all overflowed with watter they could sail rite up to the houses the folks out there cant leave the house only as they get into a canoe

 

sunday morning I resume my pen to finish this scrawl we are under marching orders to leave at a moments notice

 

I and a lot of the other boys have boxed up our Over coats and are agoing to send them home they will be sent to Medina and / the box opened there and mine will be sent to Brunswick it is directed to you if it gets home safe it will come handy and if it is lost I shant have to carry it

 

                                                write as soon as you get

                                                this

                                                                        N. J Fuller /

 

                                                                                    [in another hand] April 11 63

 

excuse this durty paper

for it got wet last night

and I am in so much of a

hurry I cant write it over

on a clean piece

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