Camp Harker Tenn

Sunday June 4^th

 

Dear wife today I will write some to you I have been waiting several days for a letter and I must write some today I am well and stout able to eat rather more than I am able to buy however I have enough well this time I can write good news to you I will tell you what we are doing we got our muster out rolls last evening and today we are at work on them as soon as they are ready we are to be mustered out and go to Ohio and there get pay and discharged it is a big job to get the rolls ready it requires every name that ever belonged to the Company and what has become of him then we have 7 of them big rolls to make I have a good clerk one that has kept the books most of the time he was at Division Head Quarters he is at work on the first one when that is done I will help we can get ours ready in 4 days so I think we will all be ready by the last of the week and I think the next we will get to Ohio I dont kno where we will go either to Columbus or Cleveland and a few days then and I expect to reach Bucyrus so prick up your ears I now feel sure that I can be there by the 4^th of July /

 

Oh yes I got a letter from Jef this last week I expect you have by this time he was at Bridgeport Ala he said he was all right on the nip up so he must of been well he said he expected to be to Nashville in a few days but I have not heard of them yet if they come before we leave they will hear of us and he will come to our camp well this day is verry hot I hunt the shade these hot days it has been dry last week and our water is getting bad and a number are getting sick especialy of the recruits we old soldiers can stand it better than them then I dont wonder for they cant go home with us they are to be transfered to some other Regt their time is not out by Oct 1^st I felt a little streaked I was afraid they mite keep me as I was mustered for 3 years from the 15^th of March but there is an order that all Officers goes out with the Organisation of the Regt the one year men are going home Parchers Regt goes next week I feel sorry for the recruits that was with us all last summer in all our hard scrapes I have 9 in my Co well I will wait until this evening perhaps I may get a letter and I cant mail this until tomorrow morning I will take a blanket and get under a shade tree for a few hours

 

Sunday evening well I got the letter today and fell better on it I like letters better now than ever /

 

I am glad the girls are going to school tell Ida I want her to go and learn and when I come home she may stay home one or 2 days I expected you would hear from Jef but as there being mustered out I think not now but I think they will be this summer there is no order yet only for those that there time expires by the 1^st of October that big time you spoke of when we get home I think I can enjoy it. I wish it was at hand

well Mam I suppose you dont make it go verry well without money but I cant help it I am in the same fix I will not get any until we get to Ohio then only my pay as 1^st Sergt and bounty I wont get my Officers until I get my returns from Washington after we get out but I can pay my army debts and have some left now that spree Sis want you can arrange it I am in for almost anything even to stealing some chickens that has been a part of my trade the last 3 years you had better keep yours close because soldiers will take anything that they can eat well I have just had my supper would you like to kno what I had I think you would well I had ham good bread butter tea sugar and canned milk in our tea and had Shnitz stewd and smashed taters so you see we live well but it costs about 5 Dollars a week here well Bush was here a while ago he said he / saw you and Sis he was at home since we came here he is in the 45^th O they are getting their rolls ready to be mustered out I learnd we are to be the 2^ond regt of our Division to go out well you hinted in one letter about Andrew B being maried and you wouldent say anything I gues what it was I think about what I heard I heard in Co. C that she run in rather loos company in Bucyrus well I hope they are satisfyed and that they may live happy I dont kno what else to write now I want you to not strain yourself to fix for my return I think that the privalege of getting home after this great war will be all sufficent for me if I finde you all well I do want to take some time in running around and see the folks I feel that I have well earned a season of rest as all of us have

 

well this must do I will write again when we get our rolls done Perhaps I can tell prety near when we will leave here

 

            no more this time from your Olty

                                                Lt Charles Morfoot

                                                            Comdg Co B. 101^st OVI

 

write soon so I get it I am anxious to hear from you often I will write as soon as we land in Ohio

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