Baton Rogue March

                                                                                                            31 1863

 

My Dear Wife

                        Yesterday I received a letter from you but not as late by two days as I had received before I am glad to know that your health is good. I have been sick for a few days but am nearly well now. We are about half a mile from the city, engaged in drilling. I do not know whether we are to go on any more Expeditions soon, or not. There is a report that the nine months men in this department are to be transfered to / Fortress Monroe as soon as possible. I have no faith in the report myself.

 

There is hardly a man in this Reg, but what is afflicted with a Relax. The Measels are also write prevelent. Those I have had. How are all of Lydias Children this winter. Lucius I suppose is as ready to enlist as ever if it were not for his preach Is he afraid of being drafted. Has there been any call made as yet for more troops. If there should be it would come rather hard on some of those who would not enlist. I would that no one need to come out here for that purpose, But it looks / now as though this would be a long war

 

                                                                                                            Aprill 3,

                                                                                                Algeries La.

You will see that we have changed our Camp, Algeries is just across the River from N. O. We left Baton Rouge on the 1^st just at dark and arrived here at three the next morning. We are not expecting to stay here but a day or two We expect to go by Rail Road to the west sixty or seventy miles. I would like to stay here a while it is the plesentest place that we have been in, as yet in La. We have also a chance to buy something to eat better than Hard Tack. Milk we can get for / ten cents a quart. I received a letter from you yesterday. Do not say anything more about the State Aid. Still I had rather you would fret about it than to explode as you say you should if you could not fret. I am glad that you can earn so much in the Shop. I guess you will get sick of it by the time I get home. As to what I shall do I do not know I do not want to count Chickens before they are hatched. But I must close now and remain your loving husband

                                                                                    Sextus

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