[Transcribed on 3/11/2022]
Camp Suffolk April the 5th 1863 I now seat my self to write a fiew lines to you to let you kno that I am alive and injoying prety good health I am well with the exception of a soar mouth I call it the canker it has been soar for six weeks or more it bothers me about eating and I reather gro poor on it I wish I had sum gool threat the Doctor let me have sum medason for it but it does no good we are having a cold snowy time here now we have had no march cince the battle at the Desurted House the Rebbs are talking of makeing an atact here soon we will give them a harty welcom if they try it we are well fortefyed and hav got as big gunns as they can bring I had rather fight them here than to go out and hunt them up to fight them as we did before [2]
the Boys from Ward are all well I got a letter last night from George C Hayse or Hayes and started an answer to it this morning. they hav comme nced paying our Regt they payed three companys day before yesterday I do not kno how soon our Co
will get their pay but as soon as I get my pay I shall send you sum money I came off of Pickett yester day morning so I am in Camp through this storm Richard came in from Pickett this morning
he had a bad night to be out last night I heard that old Mr
McOmber was maried to old Aunt Olive Babbitt and if it
turns out bad maybee he will blame me and you for what we said to him when he was at our house tell them that I Wish them
much joy good luck and prosperity [3]
tell Mother and Aunt Caty that I send my love to them tell them to get up a whoping old letter and send it to me for I would like to hear from them first rate I would like to hear from all of your folkes if they can aford to write tell DP and Anna that I would like to hear from them I will answer their letters I guess that George and John thinks that it is not worth their while to answer my letters tell me what your calcolation is about geting a Crop on the old field tell me if wilder has got all of the Hemlock logs off of the follow that he is going to tell me if all of the brush fence burned up around the follow. no more for this time Daniel Hall to
Catharine H Hall
