Camp Winfield Scott. Yorktown Plains.

Apr. 29^th 1862.

 

            Dear Parents

                                    I again resume my pen to communicate a few lines to you. I am enjoying very good health at present and the rest of the boys are generally well. I wrote you the 26^th and wrote all the news that I could find and as nothing worthy of note (with one or two exceptions) has since occurred you must excuse me if this letter is rather dry. I write merely to let you know that I am still living and well and hopeing that you will try to answer all my letters I will try to write as many as I can. I have just returned from picket which is our principal duty now we go on picket every third day to support a battery or a working party and watch the moves of the rebels. Sometimes we are not half a mile apart and frequently our outposts and those of the rebels are not over twenty rods apart. Yesterday while on picket Lieut Hall of Co "D" (Worcester company) was wounded in the leg by a shell from the rebels said to be a very bad flesh wound lacerating the muscles badly it will take a long time for him to recover. The regiment was paid off last Sunday evening all but the returned / prisoners. The paymaster said that we should be paid off next pay day but we have first to get a certificate from the paymaster that last paid us in Washington. The regiment was paid up to the first of March. The paymaster said he should be around in about three weeks to pay up to the first of May. I hope he will for I have only nineteen cents left all told. A rumor is now afloat that our regiment is agoing to Fortress Monroe to take the place of the 16^th Massachusetts regiment that has been stationed there ever since they came out and they are to take our place. some say that the reason of the change is that we have no Colonel (Col. Devens having taken his command as Brig. Gen) no Lieut Colonel the Major officiating in place of the former there is also several vacancies in commissioned Officers of companies. I do not believe anything in the above report but hope it will prove true. As I have nothing more to write I will close please give my best respects to everybody.

 

                                                                        Yours &c I remain

                                                                                    Whitman W. Bosworth

 

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            The End.

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