Oct 21^st 1863.

 

Dear Brother

            As i did not get to write last sunday on account of being on duty i thought i would write today and what to write about i cannot tell now only just that i am well.

 

last monday i was rather under the weather. i had a chill in the afternoon and some fever in the night. I thought that i was going to have the ague but it has all passed off without any thing more. We have had rain almost evry day for a week past. /

 

Well i said i could not think of any thing to write. but i have thought of something to send you just for to show what kind of a looking fellow my partner is. i will tell you how i came to get it. he got his Photograph taken or a half dozen of them and he did not like them so he got another half dozen and gave me one of them he did not like, and i dont want it so i send it to you. Mary thought that i looked rather poor in that picture that i sent them it is a fact i am not as fleshy as i / was when i left home but i hold my own in weight. i weigh 163 lbs. that is about the same i was at home. Alvin do you get all of the letters I send you or not. I write one evry week to you or Uncles. the other boys complain a good deal about their folks not getting their letters. there is lots of folks from Warren co. here now they have come to do carpenter work. I think it is not fair for them to stay at home and not volunteer, and then when they can get just four times the wages that we do / to run off down here and get clear of the draft. it looks pretty hard dont it. but i am fighting for the good of my country and not for the money as they are. i think it a poor sort of a fellow that could not fight for this country without any pay. to be shure there is some objection. some men cannot leave home well without doing themselves a wrong, but there has some young men come down here that could leave home a good deal better than i could. No more this time. But remain your

 

Affectionate brother untill death.                         

W^m H Bone

to A L Bone.

 

be shure and let me know about the letters i send you

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