August 25^th 1864

Before Atlanta Georgia

 

Dear wife this morning I will again write I have been looking anxious for a letter for some days it is 11 days since I had one from you and this makes 3 I have wrote to you since I got yours I am still in good health and hope and trust you are the same it is just 2 years this morning since I left home to serve my cuntry as a soldier and I trust I have done my duty as such if I dont get thanks for it I am willing any one may try it and learn the beauties of lying in the woods and ditches in rain and storms and in scorching sun for nearly 4 months well our stay at this point is about out we will leave this evening I think Part of our batery has goan and Hospital went last night and all baggage I gues we are going to leave this part of our lines and move around the other side of atlanta / our Cavelry went clear around the city they destroyed every railroad and fetched in a large lot of Reb cavelry prisoners they had a rough time the Rebs fought hard for their railroad many of the prisoners wer marked with saber cuts and some of ours were the 4^th Regulars los heavy they brought their dead along I think we will move enough to the south of atlanta to ocupy the Macon Railroad before they can repair it they must teem their supplyes a long way that they cant do if we get farther around it must be a hot place in town our shells set fire in town almost every day yesterday their were 2 fires well I will stop I dont expect I can mail this until tomorrow night then we wont be here so I will wait for further developments 10 AM I have just been washing some duds and so I will write some more while they dry there is / prospects of some big thing ahead there are orders for the teems to take 15 days rations along where we go no one of us knows on some big rade I suppose to the south all that are not able to march are starting to the rear we are going on some great enterprize 2 Corps ours the 4^th and 20^th have the same orders one thing I dread is I have no tobacco and it will go hard I expected a letter and some money but no come I feel ashamed to ask you for money as you knead all you get but I hope to be in a better fix afterwhile I wrote to you to send some paper and envelops long ago I suppose you never got the letter I kno you would send anything I ask I have to depend all on you until I get pay I dont want much but a little takes lots of money here tobacco $1.50 a plug paper 3 cts a sheat now I will now stop again for more news /

 

Bully the mail has come and I got the package of paper envelopes and suspenders and tobacco so now I am all right I made suspenders today out of a piece of old tent these are nice ones you sent but I fear the color wont last long as they are white however all right I thank you verry much I will send another ring it is not verry nice but I will send it rather than thro it away if you dont want it you may give it away I must close as we leave soon Goodby

                                                            C Morfoot

 

[upside down]

 

no letter came today for me

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