Sept 23^d 1864

Camp near Atlanta Ga

 

            Dear Wife today findes me sitting liying and sleeping and well I received a letter from you and I sit down imedeately to answer it in it I found $1.00 and 4 stamps and a patch I have forgoten how much money you sent or I received attenerate I have all but $1.00 I am shurer I dont see why you dont get letters oftener for I write 2 at least every week only when we were on our raid around Atlanta part of the time we had no communication back and I only wrote one I believe but since we came back I write often they will come afterwhile by the basketfull our mail is verry unregular now and small at that I got a letter from Jefferson / this week he was well but complains he has had but one from me since spring I have wrote 5 or 6 to him as he directed I answered his again

 

well I fear you will get short shirts if muslin is so high if I dont soon get pay me drawing on you so heavy we still look to get pay soon altho I see no signs yet but they say they are paying some of this army now so our time will come ear long well I have changed my liveing a few days ago I and Jacob Adams mess together instead of 4 he dont sleep in my tent he has one of his own where his teem is you would laugh to see my house I build at the end of Lts he has to much company every one sitting on our bed kept me always full of lice Jake brought lumber the 2 sides are nice pannel doors / set on edge so my house is just the length of a door and about as wide the floor is another door and a pine plank roof of pine boards the door I have none there is a place for one I have a table about the size of your stand my cooking utencils consists a old iron pot frying pan a large fancy metalic teapot double lined it cost 4 Dollars the man said we got our things in the city any thing we find and nead just lift it and tell them uncle Sam sais we must have them these we take from the reb citizens our army has and are tareing down all the houses in 5 miles of town and all the outskirts of town and even some large ones in the heart of the city our teem is out all the time getting boards for our regiment to build shanties it beats all how the work of destruction goes on this cuntry is ruined there hante a fence in 10 / miles and no timber that will make any more and the land is all dug over in brestworks and holes it shoes that there has been a great contest for it one day ever piece of woods are marked with bullets and cannon balls worst of all are the many graves many indeed ly burryed in thickets and on hills and in valleys a short time and no one will kno who lies there this is sad I wont dwell on it well we have had much rain and as usual heavy it has rained 5 or 6 days some every day I must stop the bugle is sounding roalcall or dinner well my dinner is over I will finish you did not say what kind of a jolifycation that was to of been I expect it was over the Chicago nomination we had some cheering here for Sheridan the way he whiped the rebs in the Shenando Valley /

 

I will give you a bill of our grub at present old Rosey feeds us wel now we have pickled poark smoked sidemeat fresh beef 2 times a week coffee tea sugar rice beans peas Yesterday we drew some pickels and we get 2 days flour out of 5 the flour we trade for bread to the bakers we have more trash than we can eat I have been liveing well for a long time I buy a pie occasionly and apples and cakes but they cost too much 25 cts for a pie and 25 for 3 apples I wil tell you of my supper Fred and I bought a dozen eggs for 60 cts and lite cakes for 25 made some tea boilt the eggs hard pealed them cut them up with vinegar and pepper and had a bully supper the outlay was only 85 cents uncle sam found the / vinegar salt and sugar to sweeten our tea it costs about 50 cts to make any thing of a meal here at the sutlers I buy soft bread when I can get it for I am tired of hard crackers I believe I will close this I have siting beside me a quart can of nice shugar I wish you had it but I suppose it would cost more to send shugar than you could by it write me the prices of shugar coffee tea calico muslin &c I like to kno what they cost now at home if you can get any thing from McCluer do so perhaps if he has a job you can get some storer pay if nothing elce no more this time but remain your

 

                                                Affectionate Husband

                                                            C Morfoot

                                                to E Morfoot

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