December 11^th /64

Camp near Nashville Tenn

 

Dear Wife it is late at night and I will write a few lines to you to let you kno that I am well but have verry disagreeable times now on acount of the verry cold wether it is as cold as it gets in Ohio the ground is covered with ice and sno and the wind is so sharp it most takes ones breath then the joke is we have nothing but our pup tents and no chimneys and wood verry scarse we all get verry cold tonight I got a camp kettle and some spouting from a house and made a stove so I am able to sit close to it and write this I intend to / have a fireplace as soon as it get warm enough that I can if we stay here I dont expect to stay here much longer for I dont blieve old Hood will stay in our front long and if he moves we will move also I dont see how they stand it we captured 1 or 2 and killed 4 or 5 the other day when they drove our pickets them had no stockings and verry poor shoes and som brand cakes in their haversacks I dread a move just now while it is so cold well I gues I must stop for tonight it is to cold and I will try and finish tomorrow morning I have enough blankets while here to sleep warm but if we march I cant carry them and must / leave them enough for this night Good by

 

Monday morning 13^th it is verry cold but the sun is comeing out and it will thaw some well today we draw rations I must say we draw less here than we did on the march but we can get anything one wants for money I expect one could get some of that what cats fight about for money but every thing is higher than it was at Atlanta

 

I have bought some apples I bought 1.00 worth one day it just made me a good mess I see pies about the size of a tea saucer for 20^cts so one cant buy anything to eat it would brake a banker well all is quiet on the lines only occasionly a musket shot /

 

I sent for a pair of cotton gloves lined with sheepskin I have been looking but they have not come yet I hate to buy for I cant get any but buckskin and they cost 4 Dollars and it is too cold to handle a gun without I will wait yet perhaps you did not get the letter I will close this as the mail goes out at 9 AM

 

Oh yes I got a letter from Jef of the 6 3 days after it was wrote he is all right but complained he had no money I sent him 50 cts

                                                            C Morfoot

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