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Creation Date
3-26-1863
Description
. . . cold day and to see the soldiers on guard that day would put you in mind of a lot of cows on a stormy wet day they would put their backs to the storm and turn up one side of their heads to try and shun as much of it as possible (I must and help draw Rations
One Oclock in the afternoon Dear Wife they cant let me be idle long at a time and I have now droped in to wrote a little more it has got quite nice and pleasant I have been heading my letters Camp Jo Kelly the name has been changed to Camp Hobson We got quite a joke on Lieutenant Graham he went down to town with some of the boys and gave one of them the pass that they had the boys left him and came back to camp and the Patrol Guards caught him and put him in the Guard house for a little while Shoulder Strap gentlemen cant pass here when outside of Camp any better than a private it is so reported on him I have not much of importance to to write this time so you must excuse me if you dont get a very long letter this time for I can think of nothing to write about that would interest you. there is a rumor a float again that we will have marching orders pretty soon. I dont know how true it is and have but little idea in what direction we will go when we leave here if we leave at all but I think when we move again it will be in the direction of Cumberland Gap We have a change of Commanders in this Department I heard yesterday That General Burnsides had taken the place of General Wright in this department We have very heavy duty to perform now We have a detail from our company of from twelve to fifteen men every day and other Companies in proportion so it brings every man on duty about every third day I came off duty this morning and will have to go on tomorrow again . . .
Keywords
U.S. Civil War 1861-1865, Glasgow, Kentucky, Exhibits