Sunday Nov the 23 1862
Dear Charlotte
I once more seit myself to write a fiew lines to you to tel you that I am well. I recieved another letter from you last knight and was verry glad to hear from you. We get the mail every knight but I dont look for a letter until Sadurday and then I get your letters. If I shouldent I would be very much disappointed. You sead you heard the soldiers did not get everything that was sent to them That haint so. There has been a good meney boxes sent to our regiment. You must send it by express. It is the safest way. You must take a receipt and put in a leter and send it to me and have them mark on the box express charges paid. I wrote in my last leter how to direct it but for fear you dident get it. I will tell you again. Direct the same as a leter only put Harpers Ferry on instead of Washington and I think it must come through all wright. Charlotte if you do send us a box you may send me some onions and some souch things. Vegitabels is something that we dont get much of. We got some potatoes and dried apels this weak for the first. We got seven potatoes and a couple of apels apese. Onions are the main thing in the army but we dont get eney. Only what we buy. They are seven cents a lb. Butter is 45 cents. Potatoes $2 per bu. Apels five cents a pease. You wanted to know about my peper. It is all gone. My cernts(?) are gone. I dont want you to go to mouch expence for me. You must look out for your self first and if you have eney thing to spare you may send it. We live verry good now. We draw soft bread and we have plenty of meat so we can get along verry well. It has ben a buizy weak. I choped until Friday and then went on picet. Was relieved yesterday afternoone. We choped so as to give us a better cite and so the graybacks cant get in. There was three or four hundred men choping all the weak. They destroyed a great deal of good timber. It was dangerous to go in to chop. There was one man got both his legs broke and another his arm and one is hurt in the back so that he cant walk. There was one man died out of our company this weak. He had the Tiefoid fever. There is from ten to fifteen dies every day in the hospittle at the Ferry. It has ben quite warm since Monday and has rained some every day until yesterday. It got colder and to day it is quite cold and the wind blows our winter tents some last knight. They are small tents only large enough for four. We shal put them up tomorrow and then fill our ticks with straw and I think we shall live a little more like folks. E and Wm and James Dore and myself will tent to geather. Billy is writing to his folks. The boys from the Centre are all well. I would like to see you and Maty and the rest of the folks. I think you made a good choice when you got your dreses. Maty must look sweet with that dress on. I shal have to stop writing for this time. My cough haint so hard as it was. My love to you. Good buy Charlotte. Ciss Maty for me.
Charles Engle