Brashier City La

Dec 25 1863

 

 Dear Brother I thought as I had a chance I would write you a few lines and let you know whare I am and what I am about well last week wednesday there was 30 men detailed out of Co A and I to go down here on the steam boat A G Brown as guards and I was one that went from Co A we left the boys all well and started 8 oclock thursday morning and had an old cotton barge to tow down and load with sugar and cotton as we went down so we had to stop severel times besides geting aground two or three times and at last we run the barge aground 7 miles above Braisher and had to leave her / and we reached here saturday night about sundown and the boat has bin ferring troops across the bay the most of the time since the 13^th corps has all come down from new Iberria some gon home and some to Texas and I think that the 19^th will move soon as there is nothing up there worth haulding now for we have eat up everything we could get ahold of. the other day there was 4 hundred prisiners sent up through here to be exchanged they wer some we had taken betwene here and opolousas and they was a tough looking set and some of them talked rather spunkey yet but the most of them was rather good natured. Well I suppose you would like to know things look around here in general well they look rather tough there is hardley a fence left along the road betwene here and opelousas and quite a number of chimbleys left standing / alone but here things is a little lively there is two traines of cares leaves here every day and some times more and a steamboat or so in site the gun boat Irazone is up here in the bay now and is agoing to stay awhile well pete they say to day is crismass but I have not seen eney thing that looked like it except this morning I was waiked up and treated with a glass of eggnog the bar keeper treated all the guards I suppose for keeping good order on the boat which has bin done by all but Capt B F and some other offisers. they got rather tight one night but they was so simple they did not amount to much I tell you the capt is some amongst the Southern ladies and big bugs he is two on a vine but when he gets tight he is shit on a rag. well that is enought of that and I guess I will close for this time / the darkeys have got the boat most on loadid and I expect we will leave for New Iberria as soon as it is unloadid it is fin pleasent and warm to day Oh I forgot I had some oysters for dinner I got as meney as three of us could eat for two bits or 25. cts they was fresh right out of the shell $1.00 a hundred oranges $2.00 per hundred and nice ones at that

well that is all this time

 

                        Write Soon

                                    From your effectionate

                                    Brother Wilson

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