Camp at Whites ford

                                                                                    Maryland March 7^th 1863

 

My Dear Brother & Sister

                        I will try to write a few lines to you once more. I got your ever welcome letter yesterday and a letter paper to day with a peace of cheese in it which I thought came from you. that cheese is splended I wish I had all I could lift of it and then I am glad of the paper for we are not verry well supplied with reading matter. you and Frank are making pretty well this winter aint you. do you expect to work out this summer. I dont know wheather Uncle Sam will want to keep me all summer or not, but I hope not and I think this war will close up before the nine months / mens time is out, but it is hard telling. but I think when the mud gets dried up a little that there will be a forward movement of the Grand Army of the Potomac. Well we took or the Cavalry that is with our Brigade took a Rebel Capt and two privates the other day, but the Capt got a way from them and yesterday some of the other Cavalry boys found him in the hind end of a wagon roled up in blankets and his Farther & Mother was carying him off, and then they found two more Rebels secreted in a house and they took took them and the man that secreted them two. we have got a house full of Rebel prisoners at Poolsville. it would do me good if we could get hold of old White and his Gurrillas three of these prisoners we took, or one of them had been to Baltimore on / a furlow, and he got two men to go back into the Rebel Army with him but we got them so I dont think they will be off any great use to them, for a while at any rate. Well the folks are beginning to plow they do a great deal of their plowing in the fall they plow in the spring for their corn and such like but corn is the most that they plant they do not pay much attention to any thing else only corn and wheat here corn principally. You know more about the war than we do here yet we get considerable after all but we get most of it after from the papers that come from home. I beleive you have got as many traitors or Copperheads in the north as we have got here. I wish we could march through Vermont and clean it out and the other northern states for they are / as bad as the Rebels here. It will be rather hard for Clark Goold family by his Death wont it but I am as tuff as ever and fat as a hog but I must close for this time. I will try and write more next time, but I dont want you should take this for a letter but when you write, write a good long letter. write as soon as convenient and I will do the same but you must not wait for me to write for I have so many to write to, it takes all of my time so good by for this time Give my love to Mr & Mrs Davis & Frank and all enquiring friends this from your Dear and affectionate Brother

                                                                                                Corp

                                                                                                            J W Fletcher

To his Brother & Sister

                                    Cooledge & Ursuly

 

Hurra boys for

                        Dixy

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