Camp Near Lebinon Ky
Oct the 28th /62
Dear Wife
I take this oportunity
of wrighting you a few lines to
inform you that I am well
at present and I hope these
few lines will find you injoy
ing the same I received you
your letter last night that
you and henry rote I was
glad to hear from you I Cant
have the privlage of Seeing you
but it is a great privlage
to heare from you i want to
heare from you evry week if
posible my health is good now
last Saturday we had the first
Storm of any kind we have had
since we came here it rained
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all the after noon and just
at night it commenced Snowing
and snowed all night well we
had a hard night of it with
out any Shelter i[t] cleared of[f] Sun
dy after noon and it has ben
plesent ever since over head it
rather Cool nights though we
are looking for our tents
evry day i will have to stop
righting for a little while we are
orderd out for inspection
well now I will finish my letter
we did not get in from our drill
[??] til [??] noon and since dinner
I have ben takeing Care of Delbert
he is sick to day I am glad
to heare that mother is coming out
there to live with you I hope the
boys will bild a good warm house
for you to live in you must have
it fixed up good before you moove
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in to it I cant tell you
any thing about when we will
leave here we got orders yesterday
morning to marct at nine o clock
and we hant herd any thing of
it Since you wanted me to right
about the plase we are in I cant
tell you much about the plase we
came here in the night and i hant
run around any we are here among
the hills and mountains on what
is called the rolingfork a Streem
of water about as large as the
H. [R?] the only runing Streem that
I have seen since I came to this
state my cloths are clean and hole
and i have plenty of them for the
present I will send you my
picture again as soon as i get an
oportunity to have it taken
I guess you neadent worry about
my being in battel verry Soon
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the rebles are afraid of us the
greatest truble will be to catch
them you know catching comes before
hanging tell the girls to keep there
Books clean and nise til I come home
I will put a pare of Eare rings in
this letter that Jerry give me and
give them to Adalaid and i will
Send Della Some thing els some time
you neadent be any alarmed about
letters getting here now there hant
any rebles to stop the male between
here and Louisville I expect Hyram
Nobles was in louisville when i was
there but i dident know it then
and if i had I might as well
look for a needle in a hay Stack
as to look for any boddy there I Saw
one man there from Newlondon he knew
Charles i have forgoten his name he
maried one of James R A Disbrows
girles I rote to you in my other
letter how to Derect to me and for fear
that you dont get the letter I will send
it to you again there is two of us by
same name in the same company and i
will have myne m Culbertson Sen and his
will be Wm Culbertson Jr by that mean we
[1] wont read each others letters