[1] Camp in the woods two miles from Bermuda
Hundred wednesday Jan the 4th 1865
Dear wife
I am well and Hope this letter
will find you the same we left Chapins
Farm yesterday noon and arived Here about
dark we would went on down to Bermuda
Hundred last night But there wasent no
Transports Ready for us and there is no wood
there so they Halted us Here in the woods for
the night and after we Stacked armes we all
commenced gathering wood and Building fires
and it was a nice Sight to see the fires all
through the woods for the troops coverd about
twenty acers of ground and every little wayes
was a big fire we stayed all night and now
its aftenoon and if the Vessels gets Ready
for us we will march down to Bermuda
to night But if they dont come we may
stay Here tonight yet I suppose we are
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going back to wilmington without doubt
and this time we calculate to do something
if they will let us I wrote a letter yesterday
morning to you to not send me anny Box
for they keep us moveing around so much
that a Box never could find us for the
letters dont keep track of us or else you
dont write anny for the last letter I got
from Home was wrote on the 18th of december
nearly a month a go John Jaquish got one
yesterday that was wrote on the last day
of the year you can get plenty of paper
So there is no Excuse But it aint so with
us we cant always get paper and for all
that I write two letters to your one tell
Chet old abe is calling for Him to come
down Here and see How he like the Johnes
But if He Has to come tell Him not to join
a new Regt for I would give fifty dollars to
get in an old Regt to day But its no use
fifeing we ownly missed it once and that was
when we joined the 203rd But we must
stand it From Harry Nesbitt