New Camp
Wednesday March the 4 1862
Dear Father I embrace the
oppertunity of droping
you a few lines just to let you
no I am enjoying good helth
and hope those few lines will
find you the same Dear Father
I dwo not no how to head my
letter Cobbs Legion is move
from Camp marion 9 miles
we move yestedday and are
going to move a gain a Fryday
to Suffolk 50 miles from this
place and we have to march
to the place and I have moore
clothing and beding then I
can carry and I be leave I will
Sent it home for I will have
to leave it heare in the woods
dear Father you have red it
in the holy bible
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a rise take up thy bed
& walk and that is freecontly
my caise me & my Mess baught
a hog the other day and we will
have to leave it all we ma have
to go to Tenisee be fore we
pitch tents a gain So you
nede not write to me un
til you hear from me a
gain we are going to tenisee
to run the yankeys out of
the state Some of the boys
says the yankeys think
that Cobbs Legion is red
and the yankeys is affraid
of red dear father per
haps I will get th chance
to come home Some of those
days and if I dont I dont
care a Straw a bout it
I can Stand war as long
as the yankey or any
body else
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I have never bin on
the Sick list Since I have
bin in Survice and th only
one in the company that
has not bin on th sick list
the day I went in to camps
I weigh lbs 135 March the 2
I “ “155 I am as hevy
as a horse fat as a hog
active as a cat & Stron as a
lion So you must go on
with your buisness and do
th best you can I heard
gevener brown had cal out
twelve thousand father if
you have to go and want
plenty to dwo come to cobbs
Legion but never go under
christian officers
for thar is an old preacher
in the ligion capt of a comp
he will pray for his
men one day
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he will have Some of theim
in th guard tent Some mar[c]hing
time Some dubble quicking
Some in the Spanish
buck and Some gag his naim
is Powll
So I must come to a
close
Respecfully Yours
B. L. Mobley