camp near new market Tennes
February the 21 1864
Dear Father I take this oppertunity
to drop you a few lines to let you know
how We ar geting along We ar both Well at
this time We landed in camp on the
18th I found the boys all Well and do
ing Well they ar in Winter quarters they
ar all looking Well We ar geting plenty
to eat now the boys looks fat and Sassy
the regtment is larger than it has
bin for the la[s]t year We hav 20 men
in our company for deuty every day
the men is doing better than I expect
ed to find them they have good Shoos
and the most of them hav tolerble good
cloths their is som few of them that
is nearly naked but not meney of
them in that fix the men is in good
Spirits and ar ready for a fight eney
time We ar expecting to move every
minute I do not think that We will
Stay hear long their is Som talk of
us going back to Wards bristole but
I hope that they Wil Stay hear til
coald Weather is over We hav had
som of the coaldest that I ever Saw
I thought I wold freez to death
fore I get hear
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they ar furlowing a great meney
men hear J H Masters Started home yis
terday I Wil get a fur low before long
I hav got it rote out I hav not sent
it in yet I Wil Send it up in the
morning I Saw James littel to
day he is Well and herty you can tell
miss stoks that James is Well I herd
from him to day you can tell D Murdoch
that if he Wants to come hear he can get hear
With out eney truble I Wold like to get an
other recruit I think that I Wil be home
in a month or so Andrew is very Well
Satisfied With camps tell James
Crowther that James Alewine Wants
him to com hear and let him get hom
We Wil take all the recruits that We
can get their is a great meney men
disserting from hear they ar a shooting
them every weak or too the people
in this country is all union men.
Well I believe I hav I rot about all that
can all this time We I Wil close for this
time Direct your letter to 7 Regt S C V
Kershaws Bregaid Longstreets Corpse
Rite as Soon as you can and giv
all the news fare Well
D Boyd to R Boyd