New Iberia, La., Jan 4^th 1864

 

Dear Wife

                        I will write you a few lines and let you know that I am alive & well and hope these few lines will find you the same at home Well I should like be thare with you very much we are here yet in the mud up to our knees We are expecting to leave here as soon as the going gets so we can move We expect to go back to Franklin about thirty miles from here and go into camp thare for a while I hope we shall get out of this mud before a grate while you never see it so mudy in vermont as it is here it is the madest time that…

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