Camp Lake Spring

12 Mile South of Rolla

April 6^th 1863

 

Dear Parents

                        I received your kind letter with the medicine yesterday and was glad to hear from you again. I am getting so that I feell quite like myself again. As I have been just a dead with a cold for the last two weeks I got the medicine yesterday I will try it and see if it will make me feell any better when I have taken it I will let you know how it operates. I also received a letter from Bill Maxfield yesterday. he was well when he wrote But he did not like soldiering any better than he ever did. / and that not very good. He says that all he wishes is that he had went with the Old twentieth in of that cursed twenty fourth. I guess that all his chums have played roots on him and gone home he wishes that he was there two. I received a letter from Chas the other day but have not had time to answer it yet. But I will before long. I guess that Mother did not like having him and his family to wait on for a while. But she had to grin and bear it as she does evry thing else that does not exactly suit her. Gen Herron has been receiving the whole command this forenoon. he made the boys puff and blow considerable I happened to be on guard and got rid of going through / rigmeroe. The Gen has just been up to Col Bertrams quarters. I saw his lordship he is a very fine looking man I should think by his looks that he was not a very old man. I rather think that Old Bertram will Chief of Gen Herrons staff. Capt Ferguson is getting so that he can walk pretty well again. But will never be able to march any distance. I hear that the secret at last has come to light. That is that Capt Bull & Miss Ella have at last made up their minds to get married on the first of June. Jo got a letter from home to day saying that they had got the allottment money. Have you seen any thing of mine / or that money that Ferguson was a going to pay you for me. If you have not it is a bout time that it was a coming around. The last letter I wrote you I told you that you might send my Box right a long as soon as you can with all the good thing that you can think of I must close for this time for I must do some washing this afternoon.

 

(answer soon)                                                                          From your son,

My respects to All

                                                                                                S. Strong

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