Campbell Hospital

Sept 25^th                        

 

Dear mothr I now sit down to write you a few lines to let you now how I am getting along well I am taking care of 2 horses I am comming home when I get my pay If nothing hapens tell father I will bring the caps when I come if I was down to harpers fary where I was I could see lou and the rest of them boys that went from there tell Deloria to write well I must stop and go back C D Brown       Dock has gone home or back to frank and I will close this I havent recieved any letter from you in over a week expected one to day certain but the maile hasent come for some reason. Shall look in the morning well I see Dock has / told you he was comeing home but You need not look for him untill I come. he is quite homesick but dont say much to me about it and when he does I give this satisfaction as I well remember what he said to you in the Parlor that day you was fixing our things. You said he would be as fierce to get back as he was to go & his reply was Oh, Mother I will look back to Old Otto and scorn at her & her crew. but now the scorn would like to go the other way. he sais he wont starve to death for $20 or more on a month than he can get to home but he never will do any thing to amount to any thing no matter where you get him and if he does get any thing he will hand it out to some little Boy and get cheated out of it. But I am agoing to learn him one of Uncle Sams Lessons now befor I let him go home altho it will be a lesson in a primer / to the side of them that I have took. for his Duty is verry light and he has his regular sleep nights, and regular rations. he sais he has enoughf of Soldering and if he had went when I did he would bin in Canada now. But wont fill the sheet by prolonging that foolish trash but as Mr Manley says it wont hurt a person to go on light rations 5 or 6 months well I will say Sheridan is doing a big thing up the Valley he atacted them the four part of last week won a good victory of 5 pieces of Artillery and 2500 Prisenors besides the Dead and then on following them on he found them beyond Winchester and last Friday won another larg victory Pieces of Artillery Captured 16 & Prisenors numberless, and he is still pushing on. I should sent the Daly Chronicle if I had / had the money to got & mailed them with. will send you a couple this morning these are the most reliable paper the is now in the northern press. it gets evory thing right from the front and that is true well I will say that Mr Manley got a letter from Silus cross which was headed near Harpers ferry and Date dont remember. Siles earnest wish was he wanted Mr Manley to get him into the Ambulance Train but dont believe he will make it work. will try and send them caps to morrow Father I spose you will have to get the Sights riged over & some moles. then it will through throw a ball right to the spot. Give my regards to Grandfathers people I have wrote to Egar.                 Gooday E.E.B. J. & L.Brown

 

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Mother I want you to fix some more of that Ontment for my nose and send amediately I have a verry sore nose for the first since that [?] fix it just like the other

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