Pulaski Tenn

            Novem 21^st 1864

 

Dear Wife this stormy morning I sit before a smokey fire to write to you again I have been looking anxious the last 3 days for a letter and expect every mail I got one this week from Jef he sent Maryelen Williams Photograf and requested me to send it back I did so he is well well this is bad weather for us we hante fixed for such wether it has rained all the time the last 8 days and today it is snowing and rainy and cold and we or many have poor clothes some of their buts and legs are bare I have a poor shanty just a penn built 4 rails high / and our dogtents for a roof one end open the other shut with weeds so you may kno it is not verry comfortable I built a sort of fireplace at one end with stone so we can warm some and cook we ly on the ground I intend to have it better in a few days if it stops storming well today I have often thought of you and your little girls if you had plenty of wood if you have you are better than I we have to carry our wood ½ mile up a hill so steep nothing can climb unless a goat or a soldier well I will stop and go and see if our mail has come I feel anxious to see them pictures you were to send them I have been busy writeing all / morning getting requisitions for clotheing and camp and garrison stuf for our Co so I will rest a while well I have been out and no mail yet but I will tell you what the good people of Ohio sent us we got 5 or 6 barrels of nice onions 2 barrel of sourcrout and a lot of potatoes they are from the Sanitary they come verry welcom just now there are yet some good people left in Ohio well I want your opinion about this Lieutship of mine if I shal except it and get mustered or not and what the folks around our parts say about me being a 1^st Lieut I for my part have a notion to be mustered again for I dont think but all our Regt will go out together in 9 months / for we dont get any recruits and unless we get 7 hundread more men that we wont as our time is too short to take the drafted men then it wont go bad to come home with a Commish and I think I have earned one if any one has you nead not keep it secret now because I have the papers in my pocket and I hante a shamed to owne it nearly all the Officers call me Lieut Morfoot now but you nead not put the Lieut on my letters until I get mustered I think I will get mustered soon if Lieut Roberts gets out he has sent his resignation papers out the Col thinks they will go through all right if his does I may get assigned to my own Co I will close this and go after some timber to fix my shanty if it does storm

 

no more but remain yours

                                                                                                Charles Morfoot

 

you may send me some more paper they ask for 2½ cts a sheat here when you get your money 160 Dollars from Gormleys Bank let me kno and send me another handkerchief if yo Please Please wont you. yes.

            Direct via Nashville 1^st B 1^st D 4^th A.C.

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