Monday May the 30 1864

Bridgeport Ala.

 

Wel Mother

I'll take my seat in my little dog tent to write you a few lines to let you know that i am well at present but verry much disappointed at not getting a letter from you this morning but i still live in hops of getting one before my time is out but ill not quit writing just because i donot get any letters pshaw. im just as well satisfied here as a hog in a cornfield for we just get plenty to eat & what more does a fellow want in this American 100 day service.

 

Wel i'l give you a few items of my travel here we left ind last friday week ant down to Jeffersonville that night stayed there all night & untill 4 PM and saturday / I had the pleasure of getting into the penitensary buy pay 25cts It paid verry well the boss took us all through it there was something near 300 students in it of all sorts ages sizes & collors

 

Well we left Jeffersonville went over into Louisville Ky stayed there untill 7^oc am got on the cars and started for Nashville, Tenn, where we arived at 3^oc pm a sunday and marched out through the City to camp we stayed here untill Wendsday evening we started for this place where we arived when we got marching orders we marched to the Depot when they put us up on top of rail cars and it rained all night on us but then it wasent cold atall & we just more than slght up on the cars there was none of the boys fell of some lost some of their things but i came of through all right. we crossed the old / Cumberlan Mts, or in other words went under it it is much easier than marching over it I tel you it was awfull dark going through the Tunnel, we could almost feel the darkness we arived here a thursday evening we are camped on the bank of the Tenn Rivver we just go in a swimming when ever we want to it is a mighty nice place to go in the prettiest water that i ever saw it is so deep & blue.

 

            Wel now ill begin on some other subject the corn what is here is a bout 6ⁱⁿ high the weather here is verry warm its more than warm its real hot it is hotter here now than any weather that i ever saw in the old Husier state. at noon the sun is nearly strait over us for my part i donot like the Sunny South so well as the old cloudy Noat Nourth

 

there is plenty of peaches here / they are nearly as large as walnuts now ill stay here and eat those all up then ill come back to Ind. and help you eat them but i expect there will not be verry many to eat

 

            Wel i guess i bring this thing to a close by telling you that i received a letter from you that while at Indinapolis it had Emma Dooleys letter in it that is all the letters that i have received since i have been in the service

 

yesterday i was on picket with the 54 N.Y. boys they were all dutch of cors i didnot have verry much to say there is some 6000 troops here at this place now when you write if you do write i want you to tel me all about things at home for i never hear any thing only what i get in my own letters i am looking for the Rockville Paper evry day i donot know whether pap sent for it for me or not but if he hasent tel him to if he pleases. Wel i believe i have nothing more to write but ill still look for an answer so write soon,

 

from yore son, Bart Dooley

 

 to his Mother Sarah Dooley

Bethany P^o

 Park C^o

  Ind

 

BWD                                       

C^o G                                                   

            133 Regt, Ind. Vol.                           

            Bridgeport, Ala

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