Camp Belger Sept 30th 1862
	    Dear Father
Mother, Brothers and
Sisters        it is with
great pleasure that I set
myself down to answer
your most welcomed letter
of the 15th which I received
yesterday   I am well and enjoiing
good health and I hope
this will find you all
the same   I had ___ give up
your writing   I wrote a letter
on last Saturday and was
agoing to send it if I did
not get a letter from you
at noon   but I got a

letter from Eugene and
he wrote that Irene
was better so I was not
in such a hurry   David
is quite sick   he has got the
disintary and it has run
him pretty hard   the Hamilton
regiment got to Baltimore
yesterday morning   I dont
know where it is agoing
what have you got the ___
___ tied up for   yes the baggage
train got afire when we was
coming down here   we have
all got our arms up
we have had them about
3 weeks   I dont know how
much danger we was in
when we was acomeing down
hear but I had not heard

anything about that regiment
that you spoke about
so I dont think it was so
is ___ Main agoing to the
war.   They are cutting this
regiment all to pieces for
guard   there was one whole
company started of this
morning to guard a place
and 45 mor just now started
for Yorktown   there was
one company went last
week and on hundread
men a weak before last
Capt Tucker says
that there wont none of
his company go untill he
is able to go with them
he is gaining ___  have
you got the picture of our camp
ground that I sent you   if you
have you will see the
tent that I stay in on the left
hand sid as I go up from the ___
______ as we go through that
space between Co G tent   it
is the fourth from the top
as you count down   there is 2
dots on it that I made with
a led pencil   I would like to
see it in a fraim and hanging
up in one corner when I come
home   how long did Uncle John
stay   I wrote a letter to him the
other day   I got a letter from 
Sidney last Friday   I have wrote
about all that I can think of
so I must close   you
must write some for it seems
as if I had most got home while I am
reading your letters   this from
Galutia York to Zebulon York
Lucy F York   yes ma I will except
___ your ___ and all you are a mind to send
and I send you all mine in return
direct as before