Camp at Murfreesboro

Teniniessee

Apr 7^th 1863

 

Dear Parents and sisters it is with plasure I take the opertunity of writing you afew lines in ancer to your kind letter wich I recievd in do time and was glad to here from you and also the privalage of writing to you but wold feel thankful if I had the privalage of coming to see you for I am getting tierde of this kind of work I have got the traid thurley lernt I do wish they wold stop the darnd fuss and call the soldiers home whare they ought to be I think it looks so hard for ous to be kept down here living as miserable as men can live and fiting / for are country that are fore fathers foght bled and died for mother I some times get to thinking a bout it and get so mad that I almost shed tears to think that thare is so maney walthey men in the North that are adoing and suporting the south and yat them very men holding protesune and asking the govmant to protect them godarn there Coper headed mean soles I wold like no better sport than to tye the knot round there necks and then give the order to draw it wold pleas me to see them run there tounges out and beg for the hills and rocks to fall oup on them and cry for mursey Mother I can tell you one thing / that is jest as long as the North is disgrast with such mean [?] raskels horse thieves robers cut throats Well I caunt demean them enough to suit my feelings I wished they wold take the Reglars thare some of them wold get there [?] nock them over and role them in a hole and throgh a sod over them and let them lay and molder to dust

 

Well I will not say eney more about that for I cant do eney thing with them But if I cold I am hard harted enogh to cut there throtes and wold as leave shoot one as not I wold just as leave shoot a man that is a copper head as to shoot a snake 

 

Well we will be paid off again in a few days the pay master is in camp

 

I must close by telling you that I am well and hope when this reaches you may find you the same

 

Ancer this as soon as you get it

 

yours truley

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