Kingston Georgia

June 3^d 1864

 

Dear Family this morning I will write a few lines again I feel better this morning than I did yesterday I expect a letter from you today I learn there is a mail here but I dont kno if we will get ours out until it goes to the division but as we may leave here today I will write it is expected we leave tomorrow morning at least as the train will be loaded today I expect it will go hard on the march but I guess I can make it I dont think we will go farther than Maryetta that is on the Railroad our Army has taken it yesterday the word is the rebs are falling back again toward Atlanta I think we will rest at Maryetta a while and try other movements I hope so for I am tired / fighting we are getting reenforcements all the time there is another Corps moveing along our right under Blair it is the 17^th we have the 4^th 14^th 20^th 23^d with us besides Kilpatricks Cav and Stonemans Cav and Wilers Mounted Infantry in all about 180 thousand but it makes me mad the way some have it there is some Massachusetts troups here guarding this poast veterns at that that never have been in a skirmish they are so nice clean and sausy darn them when we came in we had to go to work to build fortifycations to hide ther lazy asses I dont like that way doing if the devel dont get the scratching of some of these Generals I mistake I guess I will stop writeing now and walk around a while I may get a letter then I can write more /

 

well I got a letter from you of the 22^ond May I was glad to hear you are well and fat I cant say much for fat now our regiment are all getting slim I am willing to get nearly as slim as the Alabama hogs I believe I told how they were they had to tie a knot in their tail to keep them from creeping through fences if getting slim will winde up this war right and I have hopes this Campaign will end it this may las some months yet keep good hart I think as you say there is better days in store for us you nead not fear for Jef I gues he is at Nashville with cattle and that may be there work to guard cattle then the Cavelry hante in the danger we are in time of a great Battle they are always on the oxteam write or left wing and rear / all they have to contend with is Cavelry I shall be careful of myself as I can and take a good tree or log whenever I can that is the way we skirmish we run from one tree to another and shoot and dodge behinde any thing I will tell one little instance that I saw at the Battle at Resacca I was on the skirmish line I was behinde a house peeping around the corner and a Cavelry man at the other corner him and I had been together for 2 hours watching and poping at the rebs as one shoed his self when one was standing near a tree watching for our men this Cav he hollowed at him ly down and pulled trigger and down he tumbled the old Cavelry man turned to me and said I told him to ly down and he done it I wont say what I done I kno I emptyed my gun several times with a good rest at the corner of the house and not more than 3 hundread yards. Mam I knead a little money bad but I dont hardly kno if it is right for you to send any it is risky and I expect you knead all you got I dont expect to get pay until this fuss is over then it will come soon as the roals are all sined and ready if you think best to send any send but little not more than $1.00 in a letter /

 

June 3 1864

Kingston

the most I want any for is tobacco and when we stop to get a little bread sometimes which I could now if I had any and my apetite is not verry strong for hardtack just now when there is light cakes and bread and pies around but all right never mind I look forward to the time when I can eat some of your own make of bread in peace and not be desturbed by canon shot and shells come rattleing around the trees and make a fellow dodge and maby swallow a hole hardtack at once with this I close and will write when ever I can Goodby C Morfoot /

 

I will send you a Rebel postage stamp it is a old one I got it off of an old letter perhaps you never saw any of them

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