Camp Montesena Alabama

March 7^th 1865

 

            Dear wife today I will write some again I am well and today is verry nice and warm and there is a General Review today I am not out the rest have all goan the reason I am not out is I could not get a saber and belt I am not sorry either as it is a hard job to stand in line so long well I dont kno if I have any thing worth writeing only I write for your own gratifycation if it does you as much good as it does me to get letters well I have made 2 rings one for you it is wide out as you said and one for Eliza if it is large enough well this must do for today as I cant expect it to go yet as no mail comes yet until the bridges are rebuilt again /

March 8 today is wet and rainy I have been lying on the bed half the time reading but the word came that the train and mail would be in tonight so I thought I would finish this I suppose you would like to kno what I have to eat these times so I will give a list of my grub I have coffee tea sugar beans rice peas poark vinegar some pickeled cabbage flour light bread this I draw then I bought 2 lbs of butter at 75^cts a pound and the Chaplain gave Jake about a peck of nice dried apples these I stew and I baked some buiscuits yesterday you see by this we dont live so snoty as one mite think I have nothing to do yet I just act the Gentleman I have on a splended pair of pants and that vest you sent me but my coat is rather hard but I look for better when Col Mc comes back /

 

            now I dont kno how it will take that is my credit for them things I sent for but I gues some one will trust until I can send or come and pay for them I must have a coat and pants and saber for the saber that will have to be paid to Col as he will get that at Cincinnati I suppose it is to late to say anything now again you get this I have been assigned to duty since I wrote to Col but I gues he will get things on what I said my order is dated Feb 21^st assigning me to duty at once to Co B now as soon as Lt. Butler of Co B comes up he will be mustered from that date then I will be mustered in his place at the same date that will bring me to be musterd for the unexpired term of the Regt so 3 years will I be mustered I want to spend 1 year at home first anyhow well only a little over 5 months at most yet then up goes my old hat / and away goes my old shirt I think there will be a big time when our time is out we expect to start for the north about one month before our time is out if not on a active campain I expect we will go to Collumbus to be mustered out some think to Monroeville I think not if we are at Collumbus I want you to come there and see things and acompany me home Bully I wait with hopes for that hapy day when I can come home and be free from this cursed war I will send your ring this time and the other the next you can wear either of them which you like I still have your gold ring yet no more

 

but Remain yours as ever True

                        Lieut Charles Morfoot

            to my Bigger Half

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