Dear Father--I received your kind & welcome letter of 27th this Evening
& was verry much pleased to hear that you was all well which is the same
with me yesterday I wrote to George to find out the reason to find out the reason[sic]
why he did not answer mine that I wrote to him the bad wether continues to hold
on yet & Muddy as can be I would like to know what you sent that piece of
Paper written on I received Five dollars allotted to me I am glad that pro
visions are cheap & plenty I wish you would send that Transcript that you
read, if you can find it because I should lie to see it, we have not had verry
cold weather out here yet & what cold days we have had we have kept warm
the Fire places that we have keeps the Tent as warm as the fire Place at Home
keeps the sitting room you wanted to know whether the tents were tight
they are tight & we can keep as dry as you can at Home you wanted to know
when I enlisted, I enlisted on the sixth of May 1861 & on the sixth of this
moth I shall have been in the service nine Months two in the State &
seven in the United States which is the longest time that I know of being
away from Home as you do not wish me to go to Washin[g]ton yet A While
I have made up my mind not to go but till next pay day the Colonel
has got back from Washington where he has been sick yesterday
John B Brown was out here to see the Regiment & his Wife and
Son James from your Son Joseph Leavitt Please to send
that Transcript if you can get it as I would like to see the piece
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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