camp at Warington near

 culpeper cort house

july the 28 camp at Warington

            near culpeper cort house verginia

 

i now take my pensel in my hand to let you no that i am well and i hope this will find you the same i got your letter to day and i found five dolars in it the one that you rote and sent 4 dolars in i haint got yet there is a lot of back male that we haint got but they say we are goin to git it so i think that i shall git that 4 dolars you sent it has ben five weaks sence we comenced marching and we have ben here three days and this is the most rest we have had sence we comenced marching i ges we shall stay here about a week and draw some new clos and git / recruted up then we shal make another push on down to richmond i tel you it is fun to hunt rebels and go to days without eny thing to eat we went three days and dident have so much to eat as we ought to had for two meels

 

But we have got where we have enough to eat now tell uncle orrick that i and My got to canteens full the fifth of july and we lived high while that lasted and that is al we have had sence december we haint ben in eny battle yet we lay at South Mountain gap al one day in line of battle the rebs pickets keep firing at our pickits but they retreated back acrost the river before we could git a chance at them / and that is the nearest we have come to fiting our curnel will keep us out of fiting as long as he can i cant think of much more to rite this time about the war but we are haveing it about as tuf as i want it iam as well of here as i would be to home now if i was there i would be drafted i think this war will be stoped before snow flys we got some of their papers and they say every thing gos bad in the South west the rebs are about whipt now so their own prisners say peace will be declared before 18 hundred and Sixty 4 i cant rite much more this time so i / will close by saying good by rite as soon as you git this send me some stamps

 

so good By from George

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