Camp 8^th C. V.

                                                                                                Near Portsmouth Va

                                                                                                            Dec. 6^th/63

 

            Mr. Frost,

                        Your letter containing five dollars is recd. and the express box is recd. also. I am feeling a great deal better both in body and mind than when I wrote before, and if I felt sure that I should be discharged in nine or ten months as you seem to think I will I could stay cheerfully, but when we were up to Suffolk last spring the 9^th N.Y.V. / time expired and they had some recruits situated very similar to what I am they had from a fortnight to three months to stay and they kept them in spite of their Colnels remonstrances and evry thing else, and although the regiment’s (8^th C.V.) time is out in a little over nine months, my time does not expire untill nearly nineteen months, but still Gen. Dix is not in command of this department now as he was last spring, and it was through him that the 9^th N.Y.V. recruits / were kept, so I may be discharged with the regiment so I guess I will stick it out through the winter anyway please answer this and send me one dollars worth of stamps

 

                                                                                    Yours with respect.

 

                                                                                                F. M. Rose

                                                                                                Co. E. 8^th C.V.

                                                                                                Portsmouth Va.

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