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Company F 26th New York Infantry Volunteers |
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Fort Lyon, Va. April 7 62Dear Neice, I received your letter of the 23 and was glad to hear that you was all well I should have wrote to you before but I was going out on three days picket to wacth for burke and his band of outlaws I went down six miles below occuquan you will find A secesh envelope and A ten dollar confederate bill I have seen A good many of the 14th boys lately they are gone down the river on this expedition when you write again I wish you would let me know if you have heard anything from jule bennett or frank whiting lately for while we were on picket there division come back from manasus and went down the river I think that we shall soon hear from that army that is gone down the river poor secesh begins to quail and I think that the war will soon be crushed and over with there is A report that this regt is to be discharged in A few days but we cannot tell anything about the truth of the report but of course we all hope it is so I shall go up to manassus in A few days and see if I cant find something worth feething home I feell more sick to day than I have ever since I have been soldiering I have got it breaking out about my body the cause of which I think is through eatting so much salt pork and beef this winter that my blood is got in A bad fix but I guess in A few days I shall be over it tommy bryden was over here this week and went on picket with us he looks well and tough bates battery that george mannering belonged to went down the river last Monday for active service I think before mcclelan made A move there was three hundred thousand men around washington it is all still about our going away from here now I think that that is played out now I should like to see you all very much and I think I shall before long give my love to your father and mother and all the rest of the folks I must conclude for I do not feel well enough to sit up so long but I am A good deal better than I was yesterday so good bye for the present from Tom Huntly P.S. I wish that you would send me A dozen stamps I am got out of money for we have four months pay due the first of may |