Camp at Murfreesboro

Tennessee May 28^th 1863

 

Dear Mother it is with plasure I write you in ancer to your welcom letter of wich I received in do time And am much pleased with it Mother I feel more like writing than I did when I wrote to you before I have got over that camp disentary as you call it and have come to my apetite again I can eat eney thing that comes before me the regment has better times here than they ever seen before since they move out in the field we got all we can eat we draw soft bread plentey of mess pork and sholders potatoes pickels and beanes to make them digest and pise all that I can eat so you see I will not stairve 

 

well this is sunday morning and very butiful ifeel as though I ought to be at home laying around here and nothing much to do onley lay in the shade I get very lasey and lonesome but that is a disgrace for soldiers I have plenty of compney the Bibel ses that them that don work cant eat that is not the case with soldiers We have plenty to eat thank the Lord for that I will tell you what I am cooking for diner Well I have four kittels of beef cooking and plenty of bread so I will make coffey you see we will have a very good dinner Well mother I am writing this in a herey I want to go to church at 10. o.clock We have built a church of ceidar they are going to dedcated it to day I wold like to attend if get time being that I have not ben to church for 15 months I hardiley know how to act Mother wont you tell me how yes I guess so 

 

Mother you wanted luke to see the captain and get me a furlough we have no officers in the compney higher than the first sargent and hope we never will have again we get along better without

 

Well we have good news general grant has taken 57 pieces of canon and got in to the first lines of the rebels brest works at vicksburg this is [?] it is an order from head quarters read off to every compney in the regment it encourages the boys very much heair for they have been defeted thare so meney times our armey was getting discouraged but this has chered them oup they began to think that the secesh wold gain the day thare if the eastern armey had done as well as the western has this thing wold be most [?] oup this armey never lost one battel yet they dont know what it is to get defeted the secesh are afraid of ous they see are armey coming they get out of the way 

 

you sead you was going to write to Mollie and have her come down that box that phill and I expreest home will take her down she wrote to that she was coming down the forth of July but if she heres of the box she will be down before Mother you wrote you wanted me to get a ferlow and come home that is out of the queston now but if I live fifteen months from the twenty six of this month I will get one that will sute me better I have served 21 months I think if the rebs dont kill me I can fill the bill I have no other news to tell you that is all you write soon and often one and all

 

tell Lock I                                                       

sent him a cap 

 

Truley your son
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