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Camp near Fulmouth Dec 27

Dear Parents

I seat my self this evening to reply to your letter which I received last
evening I was glad to hear that you wer all well yourss found me usaly well
& feeling first rate Uncle Barzilla & Alva wer over to see me the other day
we had a first rate visite & lots of the Dayton boys have been over their regt
lays about 3 miles from us yesterday I went over there & stayed till dark I
saw so many that I used to be aquainted with that I almost thought that I
had got home & I see by your letter that you are worring about me or have
been since the last battle but I hope that you will feel better before this
reaches you you wanted to know something about our clothing in the first
place we are fixed very comfortable now Frank -- Campbell of Perrysburgh
is my tent mate now since John Mayer was wounded I had a line from John
last nigh he said that his leg was not quite as well as when he first
got to washington but he thinks that ce save his leg Frank & myself
has 4 thick woolen blankets & with our other fixings makes us plenty warm
enough I drew me a new pair of pants the other day & I am pretty well
clothed up now I shall draw me a dress coat pretty soon & then I shall have
plenty of clothes for the present the Government furnished us mitens this
fall they were poor things but better than none you asked something about
a box I will tell you about that mail till you hear from me again I will tell you
what we most stand in need of to make us verry comfortable & I think is
butter Chees & dried fruit I will tell we have lived on hard hread & salt pork
will we all have the Dire & have had it quite a spell & I tell you that Chees &
dried fruit is one of the best of changes in diet & tell Grandmother that she
can send me a mince pie or a little can of honey that is if I should send for
a box we are getting a little better fare now & probably if we stay here this
winter (& I think we shall) we shall get potatoes & onions once in a while &
perhaps we shall get a few Dried apples we should have such things at
enny rate you need not do enny things about sending enny box untill you
hear from me again

Oh what did you have for Christmas supper I will tell you what I & Frank
had for breakfast & supper we had some boiled potaotes fried stake &
some stewed apples we we bought the thing over to the Brigade
Commisaries & I never enjoyed enny Christmas Supper better than I did
that it was better than we can afford evey day Austin Stafford was over
here the other day & he gave me 1 dollar we have not got enny pay yet but
we expect to get pay for 6 months the first of January Our Colone came
back last night beofre las I tell you we wer glad to see him he sayes fix up as

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