Winchester August 2^ond 1863

 

Dear wife and Children I will again write to you to inform you I am well and hope this may finde you all enjoying the same blessing I received yours of the 26 of July last evening also the envelops I am glad to hear from you it was 10 days since I got your other letter it seems a long time.

 

well our regiment has just goan out on picket I did not go I dont go on picket often I have all the writeing of the company to do in fact every thing elce for the company so they dont take me only when they are short of men to fill the posts.

 

well I have left my mess and am with only one man we built a house yesterday I have a bunk to lay on only the cushions are of soft boards / but that is good enough for a soldier I can keep clean now I was verry seedy my chums were too dirty when 3 in one nest.

 

this is Sundy morning I cant help but compair our Sundays here to those at home just now the Brass Band is playing men marching out on picket there guns glistning in the hot morning sun Waggons going out by dozens after feed and other things such are our sabaths I wont dwel on these things you say you are going to the union meeting I hope you may have a good time that is wha is wanted the women must turn out electioneer if you cant fight with guns in the army you can do good at home encourage the men in the field by your actions and words altho I have saw 2 ladies in our army one Major of Cavelry she rides beside her husband with cartrage box and belt and revolvers she has been in the servise 2 years she is good looking I have hearn the men / of her regiment would die to defend her it must be hard for a woman to ride in storm and hot sun as she does.

 

well they caught old Morgan at last they caught him most too soon he did not destroy quite enough in Ohio I was glad he went there it will sho the Butternuts what they may expect from the Confederacy the repoart is here Brag is in Kentucky good if he is he will never get away if old Rosey git on the track for we have 30 or 40 thousand Cavelry to chase him last Wednesday there was a moove of cavelry for they commenced comeing in in the afternoon and was a continual string of men and horses waggons loose horces mules cattle until 2 in the morning they brought from Dixey 4 hundread mules and horses and 250 niggers I believe our army will move soon some place there is no rebs here to fight some say we stay here to hold this place I think so myself I will tell you the fun I have there was a advertisment in the Journal for corispondants told to Direct / George Alen W^m Drake James Dwift Co C 101^st OVI well I distribute the letters we have no such names at first the boys was shaimed to own it so I opend them some is from Bucyrus one from Anapolis one from Iowa I kno who the boys are to get them I gave them to them W^m Hutchison is Dwift W^m Sowers is Alen Sours is at Murfreesboro

 

one of the lady corispondents is Fany Starlight Bucyrus one is McNit Sulphursprings Crawford Co I must soon close and read we get armfulls of papers and tracts free there is a Christian Mision opened in town they send out loads of reading among the Army I got a armful last night to distribit in our Company the people of the north is doing much for the soldiers they will be remembered whether good or evil I would not like to be in some of them Butternuts places when the war is over and the soldiers get home we have a number of Democrats in our company but I can say with safety that we have only one that will ever vote with them again I am glad Greenich got bit he had orto of kept that idiot it is a pity to spoil 2 familys by seperating the idiots—

 

well Jef has a horse I think he had better fit him up some and sell him for when the war closes horses wont fetch anything for there is thousands will be sold for a trifle by Government I thought some if I have a chance at a sale nearer home when the war is over to buy a span of mules they can be bought then at auction for 10 or 20 Dollars good mules I could get plenty for 5 Dollars now good ones only worked down and condemnd rest and fead is all that is wanted to make them good—no more now but remain as ever

 

            yours               Charles Morfoot

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