March the 23 1862

 

My dear friend I take my pen in hand to inform you that I am well and hope when these few lines com to hand tha will find you in good health We are in camp chase yet and our offisers still say we are going to Tenisee but that has bin the cry so long that we dont kno wether we will go or not you wanted to kno if our regiment was full or not we have a full regiment and we got our new gons last week and tha are a splendid gon tha ar the astrean Rifel i think i could / knock a secesh three or four hundred yards easy We ar still giting more Secesh prisners here we brote in over one hundred last week I think tha are treated most to well tha git tha same kind of vituals we do and tha ar giting very saucy some of them swear as soon as tha git out tha will try it agane some swear tha will never give it oup and som say tha wer drove in to it and would like to git out and never fight aganst the old flag agane one of them bloodthursty devels tried to brake out last week but thare was four balls put thrue him that rideld him so / bad that it sent him to his long home in an instant now I will tell you what for a time we have here the mud is very deep all over the camp and it is very disagreeable giting about and tha boys have to stand guard about twiste aweek to get clear of standing guard the corporels onley git on about evry too weeks and then we dont have to stand out with them evry one puts his nomber of guards on thare post and then he can go and sit by the stove til it is time to take them off agane. john you aught to have bin with me last Wednesday / I went to columbus to take a vew of the sity I was in the musium and thare is a man that weighs 440 pounds and can lift 1700 and 50 pounds of of the ground and I was in the state House that is a nise sight I went oup the winding stares til I was seven storyes from the ground then I went to the penitentiary and went all thrue that and thare is more masheanery going on in thare then I ever seen before then I went back to camp thinking I had seen the elepant. I would like to se you but I cant tell when I can com home I will com as soon as I can no more

 

                                    But remember your

                                    Friend. Samuel ohmart

                                    John Guntrum

 

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