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Camp Tennallytown near Washington City D.C. January 2nd 1862
Dear Ma and Pa,
With pleasure to me I take my pen in hand to inform you that I
received your kind and always welcome letter dated Dec 29th and I assure
you I was glad to hear that you was in the enjoyment of good health
as this leaves me at present thank God.
Dear Ma, I will not write you a long letter for I have no news
to tell you of oneley I passed a very good Christmas and New Year.
All though I am in the tented field serrounded by my companions
in armes and fighting for a cause which I think just and holy.
For as our four fathers framed the constitution headed by such
men as George Washington and Thomas Jefferson so let it be the
laws must and shall be obayded. As yet we have had no engagement
with the enemy but yesterday we received orders to have two days
rations cooked and be prepared for a march and up to this time
the order has not been countermanded but I do not think we
will march and if we do we will not be in the battle for we are
the secind resurve. Dear Ma, your kind and always welcome letters
will chear me on to do my deauty and not only to my country which
God knows I love but to those I have left behind me.
You state you are glad that I have the good will of my companions.
Ma I will speak canded and I hope cencerble. I have the good
will of every man officers and all in my company thear is not-
hing that lay in thear power but they would do for. But [ho]
have I to thank for it but my parance God bless them.
You speak of John Hall looking so bad. I am sorry it is
so for John has shode a brotherly fealing towardes me and to repey
him for it I have arranged things so that he can draw in every two (months)
$15.00 of my pay commencing in March the thing is so arranged that
let me be taken Priserner (buy God grant that I may never befor I would drother Template:This word belongs on line above
[die] at one than to be a priserner in the hands of the men we are fiting
agantes) he can draw this money. We will git two months pay
in corse of a week or so. Then I will try and come home and iff [eney]