Camp Belger Sept 20th
          Dear Parents
it is with great pleasure
that I set down
to answer your most
welcomed letter of the
14th   I am well and hope
this will find you better
I was verry sorry to hear
that Irene was so sick
but I hope and pray this
will find her better   tell
her I freely forgive her
for all that she everr done
to me   tell her that I would
like to see her once more
and I hope that I can

allowed to see her a good
many times yet so
good by   no I dont
wonder at your feeling
bad when you heard
that we was all taken
prisoner although
if we had of been we
should have been home
before this time   Them
roots that you dug I did
not use many of them
for I got along without
it but I have got them
yet   I washed my
socks once and darned
them   I hired my shirt
and drawers washed
and had to pay 10
cts   I can go in a swing
when I want to   yes I
have red in my bible
some   I read 1 chapter everry
day   I have not got another
fine comb yet   I found
a pair of brass combs the
other day   that was ____
fine?  so I use them
in the room of a fine
___   Tell Pa that
he had not better enlist
for we are going to lick
the rebbels without any
of his assistance   I should
think that you did have
a lingering time a picking
hops this year   you
wanted to know what
I thought about selling
the hops   you can do
just as you are a mind
to but I think that
hops is agoing to be more
than a shilling a pound
if they was mine I think
I should hold on a spell
have you seen ___ ___
I heard something that
he said that did not
set on my stomach
very well   he told
Lorenzo Fuller
if he knew where he
could find a good home
for he did not like a
a man that would go
to sleep when he
sent them of to ___

he told that about
2 weeks before I left
___ and I would like
to know what he
___ Pa   I want you
to ask him and tell
me   we are having nice
weather down hear   ther
haint been a clear day
nor a rainy day since
we have been here   our
General is a coming
to see us today   his 
name is General Wool
I am going to send
a picture of our camp
next week if nuthing
happened   it is a beautiful
picture and I have got
a picture of old abe that
I am agoing to send

well I suppose you
want to know it all
so I will tell you how
we live   we have potatoes
twice a day wheat bread 3
times a day beef twice
a day pork and beans once
a day rice and molasses
once a day or if they dont
have rice we have mahominy
and sugar some cheese
and coffee twice a day
and that is enough
for any body   I begin
to grow fat   some of the
boys say Daniel is
well   he had a letter
from Abey last night
Uncle Stephen has
been sick   he is better
now   he had a letter
from ___ ___ last

night   Aunt ___
___ ____ some in it
she said you was all
well   Captain Tucker
is pretty sick   there is
quite a number sick
in this regiment   one
man in company A
is dead and there is one
of the Leutenants
that cannot live   you
had better believe that
I was tickled when I
got your letter last
night   I laughed
out of the other corner of
my mouth when I read
it but I hope Irene is
not as sick as you thought
she was   I want you
to write as soon as
you get this and dont

neglect it for I want to
hear how you all are
I should like to see you
all a few minutes but
I cannot now but
_________
is not far distant
I can see ___ all   the
rebbels is all drove from
MD and they are a
flying in every direction
I have rote a letter to Eugene
and one to Henry Coon
one to ___
___ and one to Alonzo
and two to you as this
makes two   I have wrote all
I can think of this time so I
must bid you all good by
direct to the same as
before   this from your
ever lovin son
          Galutia York

I have got to put
a paper on over my letter
for the rapper is so thin
that the writing shows
through it   they are the best
that I have had a chance
to get   I sent that
picture with some
that Uncle Stephen sent
home   it will be there
to ___  you will
have to inquire if
there is a picture
there for ___ ___
if you have not got
it   dan feels a little
better today   there
was a man killed
over in a camp about
20 rods from our
2 or 3 nights ago
he tried to run the
guard and the guard
run the bayonet
through his boddy
it passed through
his heart   does the
morgan grow any
do you know whether
henry coon got that
letter that I sent
to him   the reason of
my writing with a pencil
is that I can write
it is just as convenient
to write with a
pen   give my best
respects to all
of my inquiring
friends if I have
any
I send a pile of love
to you all   this from
you affectionate son
          Galutia
when this you read
remember me
good by for this time