Ooltawah Tenn

March 14^th 1864

 

Dear wife I received your letter this morning of the 6^th and am glad to hear you are all well I am well and hope this will finde you the same I have just come in from drill I have to drill the Company or part of it every morning 1 hour we are kept busy these days we have to be up in line of battle every morning at day break stand ½ hour then drill at 7 to 8 then from 10 to 11 Company drill by the Co Commanders in the afternoon Battalion drill evening dress perade Sundays Inspection and Review of the entire Brigade so we hante time to say grace in pease I wish the Devil or some other Rebel had some of these drunken Generals /

I dont kno what to write hardly I did not answer your last as I had wrote one the same day I received yours so I will make this answer for both that article you spoke of you would like to have I have it along with me some times but I cant send it by male so I will save it until I can bring it for you

 

that Charly must be some too that sits looking at you going to bed well this world is full of strange things some of them are here if you was here you would think of the days of Adam and Eave to see the manners and customs here only they have a little more covering than fig leaves not much either there is lots wimmen around here they come in from the rebs ground men women and children fleeing from the rath to come from / Jef Davis's dominion the wether is verry nice and plesent I would like verry much to be with you these nice moonlight nights to visit but I still look forward when I will have that privalege I expected to hear from the money I sent it will be all right I expect 5 I sent in a letter 17 by Express I sent $1^D.15^cts to Philadelphia for a vest chain valued at 15 Dollars on one of them orders I gave one order for a Meerschaum Pipe valued 10 Dollars to one of our Co he sent it with 1.15 and got the pipe in 2 weeks it is a nice thing I sent yesterday I will send for more things if it comes when I get more money I have but 2 Dollars left we get short of grub sometimes and then I can buy some corn bread from the natives here I think we will stay here some time yet attenerate until there is a General / move there is any amount of soldiers comeing there is 1 or 2 trains every day loaded passing here some returneing Veterns and some Recruits our Regiment is filling up only our Co we dont get any yet only 2 old ones came up last week Henry Clapper and John Birk they have been at Murfreesboro since we left there last June

 

I will close and send you a nother picture if you think it will do I have no glass to see my self some say they are afraid we will runn wilde laying around in the woods so much

 

            So I send my Photograph you may give it to Mary Boyer as a present with a request to send hers no more but remain yours

                                                                        Charley Morfoot

 

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here is a vacant spot to fill

 

small rag of our old flag

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