Agust the 1^st 1861

 

Dear father and mother i take my pen in hand to wright you a few lines hopeing to find you all in good helth as it leaves me at present i recived your letter of July the 26^th and i was suprised to here such stuf about our regment our regiment fought the best of any on the ground but the reson that our regiment was not braged up is because we did not get some body to report us in the papers which would cost us forty or fifty dolers we had one man kiled in our company his name was william Cownis from Dodgville Philip Carince is wounded James gregory is missing we think he is taken prisnor and there is tow or three more mising or wounded 

 

In speaking what we got to eat we are alowed a pound and a quarter of salt beef a day one cup of bean soop and one loaf of bread which weighs one pound and some times we get a little rice we get a cup of cofie in the morning and one in the evening and that is to strong or to or not strong enough this is all we get and we dont get half of that So all the news you hear about our living is true a enough Sinc we came back in camp there has been a great deal of dissatisfaction about how we are treated Some time there is one thing said and some times another but we do not know which is true. Today we are getting up a paper for all the regment to sign so we can get bac to our State to recrute up and get more men to fill up the places of those that is disabeled or other wise so that when they go bac they would be better fit for battle but i dont know how it will turn out i heard that govener Randle sent on 5 thousand Dollars worth of provisions to our regment which we never recived and he is tring to find out whom it is where it is i am in my tent to day and we had lots of rain last night tow and tow day it raighns very hard tell mother she need not be scard about me for i shal take so good caire of my self as posible if you see william tell him he had better stay at home if he cant have a nough to eat you talk about / Mush but there is many a man would like to be back there if he had to live on mush for a week

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