Camp Near Brandy Station
Jan the 15

Dear Wife

I now Sit to wright you a few Lines to Let you Know that I ame well and i hope theas will find you the Same we are having a very Good time hear now the Boys are all in fine spirits and are hoping that it wont Bee Long Before we Shall all Git a furlow to come home and i think we shall Just as Soon as the Old veterans Gits Back that is the talk hear thiss they say that they are a Goin to Let 5 out of a Company Go at a time i hope that it is so Dear I ame a Goin to send you a memoral of our Company and i want you to keep it nice till i come home and then i will trey and Git it framed or if you Git a chance to Git a frame on it Before i come Git it and you Do Git one Git a nice one for it is worth a nice Frame you can see every mans name ont it that Evar Belong to our Company The Boys are all a Looking for thair Express Boxes to night for thair has one Load come up now from the station But non came for our Company But they say that thair is to or three Loads more to come But then i don't Expeck one so i don't care for i can Live on Hard tack and Porke and coffie But when eny of the Boys have one come i don't go in to thair tents for when i Go in and see them a eating thair Pie and cake it makes me sick of hard tack But then neaver mind thiss war cant Last much Longar and then i can have something to eat again But then we have enough such as it is we fare a Grate Deal Better then the Rebs do for

they say that they don't have half enough to Eat so them that Diseart tell us and they come in to our Lines most every day and they are Barefooted and raged A Good meny of them are a hard Looking Lot of fellows Dear thair was a wedding out on the Pickt Line Last night one of the Bardan Sharp Shooters Got marid to a Girl and shee was a very Prittey Girl hee is Goin to take hur home hee is Goin on a 30 days furlow and i suppose that hee will throw him self away Before that 30 days is up thair is Lots of secesh Girles down hear and they are around our Camp most Every day and the Boys mak all kinds of remarkes about them And thair is Lots of (derogatory remark) wenches hear But then they Don't Bother me nun Nor i don't Bother them Wash was over heear the other night and we had a Good time hee told me that hee expected a Box Before Long and when it came he wanted me to come and see him hee Leys about a quarter of a milel over from me we are to Each others tent very often and we talk over old times and we have some hartey Laughs over them Dear Earls furlow went in and it came Back Disaproved so hee cant Go until the Old boys come Back and that wont Bee in some time Yet i suppose you have seean Boney Mum Before thiss time hee went home with the Old Boys and Alsaw Mary Mae ( unclear wording, possibly Colang ) Brother they have got 3 Long Years more to surve Well Dear i must Bring My Letter to a Close i have not had a Letter from you now in most a weeak But i hope i shall Git one to morrow night
So Good By Dear Kiss Little Mattie for me
Alonzo D Bump

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