June 9^th 1864

Camp in the mountains 4 miles from Acworth Georgia

 

Dear Wife and Children this morning I will write and wait my chance to get it mailed I am well again as ever and hope you are the same we joined our Division night before last from our trip to Kingston with the supply train we had a hard trip bad roads and mountainious we had altogether 3 thousand waggons I dont want another trip of the kind soon nor do I expect one as the cars has got as far as Acworth we are on some of the Battle ground there has been some hard fighting done among these hills there are many graves scattered on some nice shady grove and I saw them still hawling and burrying / as we came along but these were not all our men remember we are the Bullys now and are in pursuit we get many of their dead one thing I am glad to see our army burry verry nice and in a nice place and as well as circumstances will admit the Rebs have fell back again and we have advanced I believe they have crossed the Chattahoocha River there is there last hold if we get them out there then we go into Atlanty easy there is great anxiety here for grant to get Richmond I believe if it goes up this Army of Johnsons will give up so prisoners say I expect this fighting to last until the 4^th I think that day we will celebrate in Atlanta and Grant in Richmond then next comes pease Oh what / a glad time that will be when it comes but it will be at a great cost well I will tell you of my sleeping some nights on the bare wet ground some on rails some on brush and poals sometimes on cotton last night I had about 25 Dollars worth of cotton one rainy night on our march Almon Stoner and I got about 50 pounds of nice cotton that was baled We find cotton in the woods the Rebs have hid lots in the woods we cut the bales and take armefulls of nice clean prety cotton make beds on the ground thousands of such beds are made every night I told Lt last night when we were carrying our tents full of the white cotton I wished you had the pile I was destroying it is nicer than that you get at our stores /

 

this campaign is using the Confeds rather hard there wont be a thing to live on where we go and this is there garden cuntry there is an awful lot of corn planted and any amount of wheet and no cotton you may judge when 3 thousand 6 mule teams passes through a cuntry 4 times and pastures them on wheet oats and corn then there was 2 thousand more at Kingston to come when we left there all spread over the cuntry on different routs 10 or 15 miles wide I saw lots places where our men burnd houses and barns where the Rebs fired from as we advanced and some we tore down to build bridges over creeks and left the women and children as I saw them sitting under a few boards leaned against a fence it seems hard but there men ar fighting us they have nothing to eat we give them some crackers I am willing the South may suffer all the horrors of the Rebellion they deserve we suffer in body if not in property I think this summer will surly winde it up I would like it the sooner the better /

 

Well we have orders to march at 6 tomorrow morning I suppose we go up on the lines we are back near the trains I suppose they will all move up tomorrow write often so when we get mail I can have a letter we dont get mail only occasionly I was affraid mine would not go but I see they did if it was slo

 

well I must go and attend to some Co matters about ordinance stores

 

The wether has and is verry warm here we have had considerable rain it is verry hard marching on a clear day here the sun is so hot it is nearly strait above our heads at noon it melts the greas out of one there is other things I dont like of this cuntry besides the heat and war there are so many big ugly snakes and small ones Coperheads Adders Asps Rattlers Blue racers then the scorpion worst of all they get in ones clothes when lying on the ground I saw one yesterday one of our boys tuck up his blanket from the ground one was in it several have died in the army that was stung by them I am out of stamps again I will try and borrow one /

 

the last of this month is muster for pay again and I am going to have it arrainged I gues for me to be Orderly Sergt before we are mustered then it can date back 2 months to our last muster that is all I want now or can get as our Co is to small for any more Commisiond Officers

 

I dont expect any pay until this campaign is over so you will have to shift along the best you can I have none now but that dime you sent me I will close now so

 

Goodby again from

                                                C Morfoot

                                    To E Morfoot

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