Lee Barracks Jan 22^d

 

Dear Brother

            I received your letters last nite. I thought I wold write you a few lines, as one of our sargents was going to Sag. on a ferlough & it would get to you as quick again to go by him.

 

I am glad to hear you are having fun skating. I understand that there was an artical in the Free Press about our regt, & that it said we were full & that it did the most credit / to the state of any that ever was in it, & also that there is a battery attached which is nearly full, & they practice every day & can shoot three miles with precision.

 

Well now I will tell my story, I think there never were over eight hundred men enlisted for the regiment, if there were there never were more than that on the ground.

 

Our company is wasting a way so that we have not as many men as there were / when we were musterd Charley wants you to see if his mother got a letter from him.

 

I have not received my horse yet

 

The horses come in every day but not so with the men.

 

Yours in haste

W^m Glover Gage

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