Dear Father
It has been
about two weeks since I have
received any letter from you
You have not answered my
last letter but I will write
once more. I thought that
before this I should have
been to my Regt but have
not got my pay the Dr
has been saying that the
Pay master would be here
until I begin to think
that he is not coming
at all & think of going
week after it but may
not for my paymaster may
not have come back from
down the river & I may not
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go for a week or two. should
I go & any letters come here
for me they will be sent to
me. It has been very cool
thus far for July. I am
much better than I was
when I came here. our food
better then it was at
first. we can buy milk
for 8 cts a qt & blackberies are
very plenty also whortleberies
I eat a great many as they
are very healthy & all we
have to do is to pick them
What kind of a time
did you have the 4th
did they have a knockdown
at Platt[?] I have got my
tooth in it fils good &
I can eat with it. the boys
cannot tell it from my
other teeth. the Gov is soon
to let us carry on the war
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as we like & that will not
be to guard Reble propety
but to help our selves to
what we like. Are eny of the
Spencer boys enlisting
or had they rather be drafted
& get 8 or 11 Dol a months &
no bounty & be laughed
at by the Volenteers. The
boys will stand a chance
to be drafted. A Gen
Casey of Ohio was here
& addressed us the other
day he spoke right to
the point. Has Hud[?] gone
to his Reg or is he in
N.Y. I have two good
shirts Amsa Westbrook
is here. Cap Carl of the
26 Reg I hear has resigned
& gone home to get up a
Reg. Diven has gone
home to raise troops
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it is about time that the
north were stired up
again. I think that there
will be need of a good
many more troops & I hope
that N.Y. will not be the first
to draft but she has used her
men about as poorly as an
state in the union
[letter of Charles Ellery Bradley of the 32nd New York will continue on the 15th]
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