Camp Miserable near
orange churt house
March the 25th 1862
Dear uncle and aunt it
is with pleasure that I
seat my self too answer
your letter that come with
Capt Cutts I was glad
too hear from you and
too hear that you all wer
well your letter found mee
a bout half sick and I
aint now better yet but
I hope that it is nuth
ing but cold for I tell
you that we have had a
hard time of it since
we left our huts for
in the first place we
wer ordered too cook up
three days rations which
we dun packed our wagons
with our things all ready
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too start sadurday morning
and the wagons started soon
but we only got a bout
3 hundred yards from the cam
ps so we eat up our vict
uals be fore we got too the
wagons and it was too days
be fore we got too them
so we fasted too days and
one night but uncle as
luck would have it I
baught one of the oldest
hens in virginia and
paid 50 cents for her and
I tell you that we had
one bate well in the
second place it rained a
bout half of the time and
we had no tents so it
was shoe mouth deep in
mud so it was enuff
too mak us sick but
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I think that I will
bee well in a day or
too for I have sent
after som milk and
I think that one or
too bates of milk and
mush will Cure mee . . .
uncle I cant tell you
eny thing a bout the
war for I dont know
nothing a bout it only
I think that thare will
bee a fight hear and that
be fore long they had
a little fight last sundy
up at winchester they say
that we lost 4 hundred
kiled and taken prisnors
and thare was several regi
ments went up thare this
morning and we are
looking for orders too
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move but I dont know wh
are too uncle we got the trunk
that you sent us and I tell
you that the things did
do mee a heap of good for
I havent eat eny thing
but corn bread and
potatoes since they come
and I think that I am getting
well but if we have too
move a gain I am a fraid
that it will through me
back. I must close as I
have to get dinner soo
I send my love too
you all so good bye
I will send you som money
the first chance I get that
will doo too risk noth more
write soon as you get this
Joseph M. Little too uncle richard