Dear Mother, I thought I would answer the letter that you wrote to me tell Father I received A letter from him with A paper dated the 7th & i was glad to hear that John Shaw arrived home safe Day before Yesterday Colonel of the First regiment Adjutant Grafham & Quartermaster Manning arrived here to take command of t his Regiment & they took charge yesterday & such a awful voice for a officer the Ajutant has it is jest like an old Cat Last Saturday as the ompany was out on Picket there was three members of the company taken prisoners among them was Edmund Clarke that lives on Irving street as William knows who he is i want you to tell him to go & tell his Folks of it the names of the other two is Martin O'hair & David Patch of Brownfield they was three of the best men in the company the reason they was taken they strayed to far from the Picket Lines which they ought not to do we thought Mac Fearson was taken but he arrived all right back to camp he said that he had been in sight of the Rebels camp & that they fired at him, but we believe as Much of it as whe are A mint [mind?] to this Brigade has built A Fort to the left of Fort Elsworth which is to be three quarters of A mile Long i can see all that is going on down the potomac yesterday the tug Boat was towing down Towards Washington something that looked like A floating battery there is Two Gunboats that is stationed outside opposite the Camp Ground And since
i have been in Genl McLellans Brigade whe are having good rations now and to day he has given out orders that he will give no more passes to citizens that live this side of the Potomac to pass to Washington, I do not wish to come Home now til the regiment comes I Want you to send that Box to me When you get this & Send A Loaf of Brown bread and Cake do not send any Pies with it Because they will mould there was A Boy had some sent to him & they Moulded most of the cake we have signed the payroll to day & tomorrow they way they are agoing to pay us from you Son Joseph Leavitt
Joseph Leavitt of the 5th Maine
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