[1] Dec the 6 1861

Camp Buehler

Dear Mother
we received
your most welcome
letter on the 30 it
found us enjoying
good health we received that
comfort chaff bed and pillow
they made us verry confortable
the nights are pretty cold we
are expecting lumber everry
day for winter quarters we
commenced the foundation last
monday we have the sills and
joise laid for the first flor
its to be two storry high
we are to sleep up stairs
we are sig[n]ing the pay rolls
to day we expect to get paid
tommorrow but we have been
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fooled so much that we cant
belieaf a word that is said
we did expect to send 40 dollars
home but we dont get as much
as was expected they only pay
to the first of november and
and them they dont pay us
any thing fory the time we were
in york before we were
mustered into service we dont
a cent for all the time that i
was their before i came home
23 days pay i think we can send
20 dollars next week if we get
it the boys are pretty cross about
it if i was out of this
bulfrog regiment they would not
fool mee again if i live till
i will to get in another regiment
we have plenty to eat and
have not much to do but
we are fooled so much we
are in a good neig[b]erhood the
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ladies are making us all scarfs for around
our necks some of peple send us
a bucketfull of milk everry
morning for our coffee we are
all well but Wm Brigle and
he is getting better Micheal [?]rilly
tried to jump of the cars [In?]
the beginning of the week and
fell and hurt himself pretty
bad he is hurt inside but
is getting along verry well
their was a lady had him moved
over to her house and he is verry
well taken care of i dont know
we will get home i dont expect
to get their much before spring
but i think Ed will be their
before long you were giving
me [gas?] for not writing I thout
i did not make anny difference
wich of wrote so you heard
from us so i put it on
Ed but since you thout i out
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to write i thout i would try
and write a few lines we
are getting fat i have an appatite
like a horse i think i must
of lost mine and found a
horse us give my love all
famely and all my enquiring
friends nothing more at present
but remain your affecionat
son Johnston H Skelly

Write Sone

We will send some dirty
close up next week

i have a dog down here
so i am made up we call
him F
excuse bad writing
it so lon[g?] since i wrote withapen
how is that nephew of ours
getting along