Camp adams Run Aprial the 26,1863
dear farther I Take my pen in hand to let you that I am well
hoping wen this com to had it may
find you an the rest of the famley
well I reseved a leter from Daniel Boyd las
tusday it was roat the the twelf of this
month he was well thir was not mutch
news in his leter he roate like he wold like
to com heir to this companey if he cood git a
exchang he ses it is rumerd thir that the
yankes is all goin south but he ses he dont
think tha ar he think tha will hav to
fight before long well thir is not mutch
news heir I com of picket yesturday evening
I was at white point thir was onelly a bout
fourteen vesels in sight thir has bin
as hey as forty seen at this plase it
is rumerd heir that tenthousan trups under
buaguard comand is orderd to the west
but i dont think that we will have to go
if we do I dont think we will git this
meney horses we lost tow horses in our
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companey yesturday horses have all kind
of deseses heir my hors looks very bad we
dont git iney thing but corn to feed on
the helth of this regment is tolrabel good I
not got quite shet of my cold yet but I have
got beter Mary ses that you have planted
parte of the ground and was goin to plant
the rest of it I am glad that you have taken
charge of the ground that I had to wirke I did
not no whan she wold git to wirke it if you did
not wirket it for heir her i no you have
a bad chanc to worket it an wirket your one
I wish I was at home to wirke my one I am a
frad that the famleys that is lef at
hom will see hard times if this war
go on mutch longer I will have to com
to a close for the want of sumthing to
write write to me when you git this
give Sarah an Andrew my best
respects an exsept the same to your
self Fenton Hall to Mr Robert Boyd