Dear Cousin.   This a very unpleasent day, and I am seated in my bunk wishing I could be where I often have been among my friends and realitives But alas! it cannot be so Traitors are threatening our Countries destruction If I aint badly mistaken I have wrote to you about two weeks ago and received no answer Please answer this immediately

 

            We are still stationed at the same old place we have now about five hundred horses and expect the rest very soon The day I left the sugare Camp I had a great deal more fun than I did have any time since I shall never forget it I left my knife in the camp somewhere I will that to one of the Girls S or M. I brought the taffy to camp with me and the boys allowed I must have had a very good time for they think there is nothing like going to a Sugar Camp enough of this for this time You will undoubtly th consider this an odd looking letter and so it is a young man was going to copy a song for me and he left after writing a few lines so I commenced to write a letter to you the song I shall let be on the sheet I cannot forget the weather there is scarcely a day passes but what it is raining /

 

                                                                                    Camp Michell April the 20^th

Fifty Cents A Day

1          I Am an A humble Soldier,

Far from My friends And home

Mid Scenes of war And hardships

I constantly Must Roam

With many officers over me

And then I must Obey

And Do Just what they tell me

For fifty cents A Day

 

2          I enlisted in the Army

To help my countrys cause

Because I loved It dearly

And would sustain its laws

I felt freemens duty

his country to obey

I came not As a hireling

For fifty cents a day

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