Feb 20^th 1865

 

            Dear wife I will pen a few lines today to you partly on business I am well today but a little out of humor I will tell you why Lt Roberts received a Commission as Captain yesterday and is to get mustered tomorrow there is one other commision besides mine for 1^st Lieut one of us is to fill the place of Roberts now as Col McDonald is not here the ajutent and the rest of the suckers have pushed me to one side and the other is to be mustered in my own Company I had the first chance and would been mustered if the Col was here so I have wrote to the Col just now for to be assigned to a command so I can draw pay if I cant get one they may go to Hell /

 

I have told Col Mc if he can give me a command soon to get me a coat pants and saber and bring them along if not why I wont get mustered and not buy clothes I wont buy them here it will cost all I will make these few months I told him to get them on them conditions now I want you to get some one Benj Boyer if he will to attend to it Col Mc knows what I want I dont want the verry best just tolerable good it will require about 60 or 70 Dollars if he can get them and I think he can from Simons I will pay for them as soon as I can draw from the government you must keep your money tell Ben to tell him I will pay soon as I can my pay then will come to over one hundread a month / as for the size I hardly kno how to manage that only by gues my highth is 5 feet 8 inches and thicknes around the brest it will want a coat 37 or 38 inches my weight is 155 if you please get some one to attend to it Col Mc will direct the kind of material tell them to get them cheap as posible for I am poor and earn my dollars by hard solgering in Dixy if Col Mc cant assign me to some Co soon I dont want the clothes as I wont buy them here I will remain as I am first before I will be fooled by any one again no more but remain

 

            Yours truely

                                    Charles Morfoot

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