Camp Curtin Nov 11th 1861
Old woman
how are I am well
and hope you are the Same times
are very good for us only it is
midling cold nights we arived here
last Thursday one week from the
time we Started our Captain used
us the very best that the tarverns
could afford we Staid in Har-
risburg till the rain was all over
and had dried off I think we have
the best man in the camp for a
Captain Mr Lyons is not my Captain
by a good deal and I feel thankful
that he is not although I do not
know but he is a good man but I
doubt it greatly I think Same as
Orbo [1] Said about him. I have the
best of a fair for I tent with officers
and it makes it very convenient for
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me if their is any good fair I am
Sure to get my Share I think that
I have every reason to be thankful for
my situation I wish all might fair
as well as I do but I fear they do not
I trust you recieved my letter that
I wrote over one week ago Stating to you
what I thought you had better do and
also about your certificate which was
left at judge Reeds to draw your
money and I hope you have receivd
it before this if you have not do
not Suffer for any thing and I trust
you will not. Seth said he would
get that wheat right out and
you can get that I hope you will
enjoy your self for I do and their
would nothing make me feel unh-
-appy only to know that you Suffered
I hope you do not think that I love
you any the less because I have
enlisted for the war, for I feel as
my affection was just the Same
that it ever was for you and I hope
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that it may ever remain the Same
I would like to See you this day but
I Should not like to part with friends
for I feel like a fool when I do
I am So tender hearted that I act
foolish. I wish Worden would Send
me a dollar for we arived just
one day to late to recieve our [pay?]
from the time we enlisted. that
is we were not mustered into serv-
ice So we Shall not recive our bou
-nty money and pay till the Second
day of next month and I want
Some money to pay my postage and
tobacco they are very useful arti-
-cles So much So that I cannot
do without a little to get along
with times I have not enough to
last me till then and the boys
have got the Shorts worse than
my self I suppose I could get the
money of[f] the Captain but I hate to
ask him this asking strangers is
more than I can do and I hate to be here
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without some that is so as for
whiskey I have none nor do I see any
nor do I have any desire for the [????]
and I hope that I may not neither
I wish that I could give you a decription of Camp Curtin
but I cannot for it would take more than a sheet of paper
to give you a just decription of the place I will try
this week for I have not mutch to do this coming
I shall not be on duty this week and therefore
I can write about as much as I please I intend
to go to Kentuckey within two or three weeks
at the most I have the [????] of going [on?]
[??????] if I choose but I think [not?] down to
Kentucky will be the place that I shall go
for there I can have my choice of rifles and
also side arms and shall no [???] pick-
-it guard which [I?] shall dread Should
dread this standing on guard therefore
I choose to go to [Kentuc?] the people [around?]
here are midling [rough?] but no liquor is
alowed here and I am glad as for card
there is not half as much as I expected to
find here very little playing have I Seen
give my respects to all my friends and tell them
all to write me a line [how?] [??] and write
as soon as you get this direct your letters to camp
Curtain in care of Captain Sides [2] kiss Clara for
me and I will kiss you if nothing turns up
that is So L A Granger to S. A. Granger


brother-in-law Orbo Palmer Capt. Peter Sides of Co. A