Dear Father--I received your kind letter & welcome letter of 2d on the sixth with two paper the Papers are the first that I have recivd for A week now and I cannot see into it if you send me one every day because I have received them regular all along till within a week pass I am well & never was better I hope ths will find you the same you wanted me to write & tell you how many hours we had to stand guard whilst we was on Pickett we was on Four days & out of those days we had to stand on two out of the twenty four so you can see that we do not have A very hard time on Picket yesterday this Brigade was Review by Govoner Morgan of New York he is A smart looking man & among the regiments there is another one from Pensylvania it is the sixty ninth. the old Suttler has orders to pack up his things & leave the Regiment But I am sorry to write & tell you that there is another one that has moved in his name is Albert Warren William knows him his Folks live on State Street right above Littles, I have got my shanty done & have got A fire place in it the reason that I have not written to you before is this I have been at work on the Shanty tell Mother & John that I shall write to them next Sunday if I do not befor3e give my Love to all tell Henry, Charley & Walter that I would like to have them write to me, From you Son Joseph Leavitt.
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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