1862 June 18 Flat Top Mountain, Va.

         Jones
Camp  ^Flat Top Mountain
Wednesday Thursday morning June 18
Dear Father
      We are again
fixed in camp
with a fair prospect
of remaining here
some time.
We removed
our camp about a mile
from where I wrote
you last
We have again recd
Tents We have now
the Sibley Tent the
largest and best in
use.  Our camping place
is a very pleasant
one We have a
most magnificent
view of the mountains

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only 6 Companies of
our Regiment are here
now the other 4 Companies
are down on the New
River near the mouth
of bluestone guarding
th a ferry
I Recd a letter from Mother
a few days since she
asked if I wanted my
watch yet certainly
if you can send it--
I have heard that the
boys are getting up
a band again in Sav--
is this so if it is tell
Eli and Tom to fix up
my old horn and they
can learn if they
get up a band and
can send them
musick and it will
cost them nothing

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Savannah should
support a band and
I am certain can have
as good a one as
Ashland
Are you doing anything
about that matter in
Pa
Have you shorn the
sheep? what will you
do with the wool?
How much corn have
you planted?
I have written in
great haste to get it
in this days mail
I have to go to practice
now and must close
write soon 
      J D Templeton

[James Dinsmore Templeton, musician and private in the 23rd Ohio]


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