George Messer Letter to Lottie Messer, Page 5

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George Messer

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3-26-1863

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I told Wesley about De McCuddies stories he thinks she is the bigest fool liveing he never has wrote to her and never expects to if he can help it and as to those other Ladies he cares but little about them he thinks they will soon be as popular in that neighborhood as the Ladies are in Creek Nation and I begin to think so myself Whenever girls begins to put on briches they had better do like old Caleb Edwards said they had better be hunting the cows for their daddies We have commenced to cut down the Timber around our camp it is to be cut off clean for five hundred yards all around and five hundred more to be cut down and left lay and the timber and brush is so thick that when it is cut down you could not shove a dog through it backwards When we get the timber cut it will be pretty hard for any force to get close to us I must stop for a little while and warm my fingers for it is pretty cold sitting in the shade

When I wrote to you when we first came down here I did not expect to get the mails very regular but the come as regular as they did as Munfordsville only a litte later in the day we get our letters about seven oclock in the evening and it goes out from camp at three oclock in the afternoon and I will have to close pretty soon or I will not get my letter in in time and I want it to start today Wesley is well and hearty and is now blacking up his harness as the boys calls it Cartridge Box belts &c He is about as particular about his clothes dress & appearance as he was when at home but we have all got hardened to eating considerable more dirt that we were used to I think those in the army eat a half bushel instead of a peck . . .