December 13^th /64

Nashville Tenn

 

Dear Wife and Family

            this morning I will again penn a few lines to let you kno I am still well and hope you are well also I thought yesterday we would be on the march ear this morning we have orders to be ready to march at a moments notice and all that were not able to march have been sent to the Hospital it is going to be rough to go now the weather is so verry cold in this suny South yes just as cold as in Ohio we have to huddle around a few coles or cover up in our blankets I am better fixed now I built a chimney yesterday of stone and brick so we keep prety warm in our tent / and I have a good pair of shoes and them socks you sent and I have 2 shirts on and my old blouse under my dress coat all is lacking is gloves I often think of you this cold wether and think if you have wood and are comfortable I still trust you are you yet live in the land of the free and the home of the brave in this Godforsaken cuntry many poor must suffer the rich have all there is a residance here joining our Camp it would astonish you to see it there is nothing that one could wish for but is there fancy buildings of every description and water arrangements and a fish pond walled with brick and cut stone there is fish of all kinds that is fancy fish the / water is sparkling with gold fish these premacies must of cos more than a hundread thousand dollars these a women ownes a widdow well I cant tell where we are going I think by report that we will go toward Louisville report is the rebs or a part of their foarse are crossing the Cumberland River 20 miles from here if so we must keep pace with them until we can get a fight they say we have 40 thousand cavelry came across the river yesterday if so I think the rebs wont have things there way much longer we have now men enough to whip him any open fight and our Cavelry will get in his rear and destroy his trains I think if hood crosses the river his army is goan up shurer I dont like the prospect of marching to Louisville / then back again it would make 5 hundread miles more for us the fun of camping out on sno and ice thes cold nights I dont like well I must close the mail goes out at 10 and it is nearly that now if we go I will write whenever I can and let you kno wher we are dont forget to Direct 1^st Brigad 1 Div 4^th A.C. they always kno wher they are at the Military P.O. they will not be as apt to lay by so long I send my last stamp on this I must try and get some if I can with this I close and remain as ever your

                                                                                                Charles Morfoot

 

I send my ring I have wore a long time and it has got scratched and spoild some I am tired wearing rings I stil have yours I wear it a while then carry it in my pocketbook a while

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