Dear Father I have just finished A letter for George & as I have got nothing else to do I thought I would set down & write to you & let you know that I am well & never was better in my life, & will try to answer some of the questions that you write in your last letter you wondered how some of the seventh of Maine came over they do keep pretty strict over there only allowing two passes A day to a Company, & I saw some of the Friends of mind in the Massachusetts regiments Charley Floyd is the name of one of them you say that I do not make any complaint about clothing I have no reason to make any because we are well clothed we have Plenty of wood & use it anyway we want to most of the Boys have stoves in thier tents which cost Four dollars & A halfe, the day was Pleasant, General McLellan review was about Just the last part of it it begun to sprinkle I wish you had been here that day when he passed the different Camp Grounds & heard the Cheering of the different Regiments, I hope this will find you all as well as I am From you son Joseph Leavitt. I am willing that you should write what you think is right but I can guess ho[w?] that was that said I wonder what our Jo does with his money it sounds Just like Mother & I want you to tell her that I put it at good use & will try & send her Five dollars the next Pay day which in all will be fifteen dollars answer it soon.
Letters from Joseph Leavitt of the 5th Maine and his brother George of the 5th New York 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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