to Miss Selina E Dooley

            Barton Dooley

September the 9^th

Head quarters

of C^o B 115 Regt I V M

 

                 Wel Selina I seat myself to answer yore letter that I received day before yesterday. I am not verry well to day I got a pass to go out in town and i suppose that i eat to many peaches for we never get any in camp you know and then when i get out they / taste so good that I donot know when to quit eating Wel lina I'll tel you what does me more good than any thing else that I have taken

 

Henry Diex came up here and Jim Starks wife and they brought him a big lot of good butter and homade molasses so you see Jim Starks is in our mess and I got some of them I thought i never eat any thing as good in my life as good molases butter and bread i tell you lina it helped me right off / for I had never eaten any since i came from home and you see it tasted mighty good

 

Wel you want to know whether i eat all of my cherry as yet well I have not eaten any of them my self but bob M^cCord was sick and i [?]ied about half of them for him so i have the rest of them yet you see that when one of the boys gets sick i like to do all that i can to make them well for i know what it is to lay in an old dirty hospitle but the hospitle here / is a verry nice clean one Robert M^cCord is in it now but he is a getting better there was one boy died out of our Company day before yesterday his name was James Patent he was a yong fellow about 16, Mises Edwards was his aunt he died with the tiphoid fever I ges I will quit for this time and write a letter to some pretty girl tel Martha to write to me and you must write a longer letter the next time so good by from you brother Bart

 

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