Camp Adams April the 8th 1862
North Carolina
Dear Companion I
again take my pen to drop you a
fiew lines in answer to yours
of the 28th March which I recived
in due time by the hand of W. J. Martin
which found me well.
We have bin in a great bustle since
nine .O. clock last night we recived
orders to cook three days Rashions & be
ready to march for Charlston at
a minnits warning. I was a sleep
when the orders came So I did not
now anything a bout it untell this
morning but when I got up our
Cook had bin cooking all night
& had my rashions ready I would
not of Sit up last night & cooked
for what I have to give for a months
cooking we have a good cook & a good
mess I belive I have told you hoo they was
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I Sent to you by J. B. Fielding one
hundred Dollars you can make the [1]
best of it you can. as I belive those
hoo are at home now do not want con
fedrate the very men that
was evrthing & could do evrything are the
very rascals hoo are now refuseing to
take what the poore Soldiers earns or
rather what he gets & if they do not [2]
do everything that they would have
done they take advantage of their
absence to abuse them but their
is a day coming when this war will
end & if I Should be fortunate enough
to get through I never want wone
of them to Say that we whiped the
yankies yes it will be then we have killed
the baire, when they have bin eaven worse
than yankies. I do not think we will
go to Charlston now though we may
So good by rebecca & henery for the time
W.A. Martin,To,R,E,&,H,B,M
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April 8 not gone yet & do not expect to go