Deaar Mother, I have just receved Fathers letter of the 16th and was glad to hear that all of the Folks were all well, I am well & Never was better in my life last wensday there was A grand review of Part of the Army on this side of the Potomac at Baileys cross roads by General McClellan & his staff & the President & Vice President & the Cabinet And about three thousand of the citizens of Washington there was Seventy Frive thousand there I did not go with them there because I had just come off Guard & the morning the Guard is relieve they have the hold day to themselves each man had to take twenty rounds with him so if there should be and attack Maid on them, the suttler of this Regiment is got to leave I do no know what for now I dont care how quick that he does due it I receved A letter from Ellen & she wrote that Elizabeth took tea there I have lost the direction of Mister Stevens box I want you to tell me the number because I want to answer it right away
From Your son
Joseph Leavitt
Letters from Joseph Leavitt and his brother George Leavitt were copied into a ledger by their father John Leavitt in October 1865: "because they are of value to me and I was fearful that they might get mislaid." Both boys were mortally wounded in the war, George at Second Bull Run, August 30, 1862, and Joseph at Spotsylvania, May 18, 1864.
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