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Document Type: Autograph Letter Signed
Transcription
Page 1 Images: 150 DPI
– 100 DPI
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The New York Branch of
C Co 14 Regt 2 Div 19 Army Corps.
Camp at fort Polasca March.24.1865.
Dear wife i now seat my self to write a few lines to let you know that i am well and hope this will find you the same we are drilling in hevey artillery and fire a hundred pound gun every knite at sundown we like here first rate and hope we shall stay here till our time is out but i dont expect we shall but it will bee acording to the fiting if the fiting holds out threw the summer we shall have to go into the field we have to go on gard every other day but it is all under cover and all at home it is not like picket deauty we have all the oysters and fish we want we live well here have soft bread and potatoes and meat beens onions pickls and pea [illeg] Page 2 Images (pages 2 & 3): 150 DPI – 100 DPI – 72 DPI well another day is past and i am on gard in the fort i am well but my legs ake all the time nite and day just as they did last summer and if i had to march I could not march one day but if i stay here i think i shall bee all write in a few days i was wet for a week when i went on the boat all the time and cot cold and it settled in my legs but they are better now well sargant Parker has got his box today it was sent the next day after mine was sent and directed the same but mine haint come but still it may sometime but I think never but if i doo it will not bee worth much well we can buy things of the quatermaster for the money by getting an order from the captain i bought a quart of molases for twenty cents that is all they ask for it here Page 3 Images (pages 2 & 3): 150 DPI – 100 DPI – 72 DPI well the boys are all well here except Orlando Stone he has got the Mezels Reuben Rolon and Carrold are well Cy is full of hell all the time his finger sticks write out strate it looks like a dogs tail Cut off but it is well and sound well the mail goes out tomorrow and i must close for i have got to go on gard in a few minuts well take care of your self as well as you can for six months more and then if god spars my life I will bee with you never to go to war again this from your treu husband god bless and protect you and yours forever here is a few lines from Carrold if you can read it if i could not write better then that i would try and learn to write he says i need not read it unleSS I am a mind to so good by for now
William Combs
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