Beebe6

Transcription: 

[1]Friday
Feb 1st/ 63
I have just eat my breakfast
perhaps you would like to
know what it was well we
had a choise one Frank
Ambrose and my self are
on the sick list we though[t]
pork and crackers rather
strong for our stomarchs so
we concluded to have some
thing better I said to Frank if
he would hunt up some
tea I would get some
cheese we got what we
wanted Frank and Ambrose
made the tea in our tin
cups and we had a bully
bully old breakfast
it is not evry day we
get tea when we do get
it we know how to [prize?]
it
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we have not become is so
incensable to all human
feelings but that we dont know
the differance between the
miserable things we have
to eat here and what we
use to have to eat when
we ware at home but if
we live through this we
may have the privilege of
eating at home again some
time without depending
up on Uncle Sam for our
grub I said we ware on
the sick list we have got
either to be sick or well here
if we dont report ourselvs
sick to the Doctor and be
exempt by him we are subject
subject to any duty they see
fit to put us on us
This is sunday morning
write soon
L Beebe

Footnotes: 
  1. This letter and the letter date February 7 are continuations of the letter of January 31.
Date: 
February 1, 1863
Collection: 

Author(s)

Unit: 
Co. C, 151st Pennsylvania Infantry
Rank: 
corporal
Residence (County): 
Susquehanna County, PA

Recipient(s)

Residence (County): 
Susquehanna County, PA

From

From State: 
Virginia
From Municipality: 

To

To State: 
Pennsylvania
To County: 
Susquehanna

Transcription/Proofing Info

Transcriber: 
Bambi Whitaker
Transcription Date: 
December, 2012
Proofer: 
M. Ellis
Proof Date: 
June, 2013

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