Ooltawah Tenn

April 19^th 1864

 

Dear wife today findes me all right yet and in our old camp yet we expected to leave Monday but it is tuesday and we are here yet some think tommorrow we will pull out I see troops comeing in this morning so perhaps we will go I sent a few lines to Sis but I hadent time then to write but little we had Review again yesterday by Major General Howard our Corps Commander a one armed man he had his right arm shot off at Shilo Battle

 

I got a letter from Jef he is at Lexinton KY he said he had no letter from home since he left Denison he got my letter that I sent to him at Louisville / it followed the regiment so you can write to him if you dont kno where he is the letters go to the Army Postoffice at Louisville there they kno where every regiment has goan the same with me via Chattanooga if in the Department I hante much to write today the wind is cold and this is picket day for Co. C and I am alone again so I will loaf today I am sorry I cant furnish Sis with a black ring I cant get those Perchy buttons here if she can get some and send me I will make the nicest ring you ever saw I will put silver sets in and have them lettered and flowred I dont kno if they can be got in Bucyrus they are large and thick without shanks if I had some I could sell the rings for $1.00 I finished a nice Laurel / ring this morning for Sis it had a silver plate on top and a heart on each side but I had to let it go I get $1.00 for it next payday that is the way I sold more I hope you may succeed well in the sheep trade and any other trade you make I wish you would fish around and get some Copperhead or some one else to buy our lot again I get home if you dont I will runn of and let it go to grass for I dont want as good a family as mine to live in such hell hole as Bucyrus or vasinity any longer than I can help you never told me what part of Ind Dan has goan whether North South East or West I suppose he went to Josh or Crists but which or either write as usual if we move it wont be far 10 or 15 miles I will send a paper printed at Cleveland 15 miles from here where our Division Headquarters are /

 

I will send a pensiling of our camp and vasinity it is not verry good I got it to large to get the mountains in front of us on Oh I must tell you of my exploring last Saturday I got a pass to go outside the picket line so I made a strate shirt tail for the mountain up I went until I got on top of the highest peak but it made me puff there I had a view of all the cuntry for many miles and of Lookout Mountain peak above Chattanooga and some other mountains far said to be 150 miles away south east this peak is narrow not more than 2 roods wide on top I have always wanted to go up on top of some of these high peaks I got back to camp most plagy tired

if you please send 1 or 2 2 cent stamps and I will occasionly send a paper from Dixy to you no more now

 

            but remain as ever Faithful and

                        true to you

                                                Charles Morfoot

 

[upside down]             Bucyrus Ohio

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