Camp Wauhatchie Tenn
Nov the 14 /63
Dear Charlotte
I once more seit myself to answer your letter of the 28th of Oct wich I received day before yesterday. I was verry glad to hear that you was all well. It found me well. It is some over a weak since I wrote to you last. We have so much duty to do I cant hardly get time to write. We have put up log huts again for winter quarters. We expect to stay here a while. We have got a good warm house and a good fire place. If we can onely stay here this winter but we cant tell. We are liable to move eney day. I found 50 cents and some peper in my letter which I was glad to see but we will get our pay before long. They are makeing out the payrools now. I had bad luck with the peper. I split most all of it. We will draw some before long. We have ben pretty short with rations since we have ben here but we will have full rations after to day. They are repairing the railroad from Bridgeport here and they run boats from there here so they will run in all the supplies we nead. We are building roads from here to the river so there will be no troubel in getting rations. I hope they will send in some potatoes and onions. We nead vegatables verry much. The troops at Chatanooga have had to live on have rations but they will fare better now. We have opend the road but the rebs are on Lookout Mountain yet but they cant hurt us much but we had a hard fight with them the first knight we came here. It was the same day you wrote your letter. You sead you wished you knew where I was and what I was doing. I marched all day and about mid knight was sudenly woke from my peaceful slumber and huried to the field where a quite a number of our boys sleep yet. There is now 23 dead out of our regt that we know of. Cortus Stevens received a flesh wound in his arm and died the other day. The second day after the fight it rained and a good meney of the wounded had to lay out in the rain and I guess he took cold and it killed him. There was a letter come for him the other day with his wifes likeness in it. You used to wish I would get wounded so I could come home but slite wounds are dangerous here as they dont always get good care untill it is to late. I never have got a sratch yet and I hope I never will. A wound from a bullet is a great deal more dangerous then a cut from a knife or ax. I was on the battle field the other day. It looked rough. I couldent help but drop a tear over our brave boys that fell there.