the
Goldsboro March 26 1862
Dear Mother
I now set my self to
write you Afew lines to let you no
how I am getting along I am well
at presant and hope this may
find you the same Benj is well
and harty Dear Mother I wrote to
Father soon after I got to Suffolk
and sis but I dont think that
I have written to you since I
left yorketown and you must not
think harde of me I give
Father all the news about our move
and Sis too and I will now give
you and recount of our last
move we did not Stay in
Suffolk but three weaks before
we were orderd to Goldsboro
North Carolina we took the
cars at Suffolk and went to
weldon where we changed cars
and then went to Goldsboro
where we landed last night
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and this morning I will write you
Aleter when we come to Richmond
when we left home we went right
through Weldon and through Golds
boro and Petersburge and since they
have got to moveing us so much they
move us nearer home evry time
we are now about 250 miles
nearer home than we were before
Goldsboro is the prettyest little
town I ever saw and we are
now in camps not more than
3 hundred yards from it we fair
fine now for I can get shad
and eggs and the way the boys
make them squat is the way
we eat fish of some kind evry
meal I have eat so much
since I left that old muddy
pinninsulia before yorketown
till I am as fat as I can
be when I left it I wayed
170 pounds and I now weigh 175
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and if I keep on I will weigh
180 before long for I have gained
5 pounds since I left the
pinninsulia and we have not been
of[f] of it long. Father wrote to me
that John Reece said I weighted 170
and he said he weighed 177 he
is only 2 pd larger than I
am and I will get them on
him if I dont get sick
Reece has not got back yet
but Leut Brown come yesteday
he brought with him two men
one of them was Dannel
he told me that he saw
Father at mr Murphys he said
that Father looked harty you no
that I was glad to hear that
Dear Mother tell Father to write
to me soon for I wrote him
one letter that is worth two
if he got it I wrot him
12 pages write to me if he
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got it I wrote it to him soon
after I got to Suffolk we will
got to Wilmington next they
say we will go there in A
few days if they move us there
wil will be still nearer home
we can send letters home for
5 cents Dear Mother write to me
soon and when you write Direct
your letter to Goldsboro North
Carolina we have had some
bad luck in our company
we have lost 10 Since we left
home Wilson Reece Died the 20
of this month Dear Mother it is
raining And most time for
drill so I must come to A
close nothing more at presant
Your Affectionate
Son Jim