| | 1 | Author: | Bitner Collection: Donely, Thad | Add | | | Title: | Letter to Henry A. Bitner  | | | | Published: | 1998 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-Bitnerletters | Henry Bitner letters | Bitner collection | Letters written to Henry A. Bitner | | | | Description: | I take this oppertunity to write you a few to let you
no that I am well and get along well
their is not sine of a move at this time the weather here has been fine.
yesterday
their was some rain but did last long.
I received John letter a few Days ago I though
I was not going to get any word from home and was much peased to here and was much obliged to John for for the stamp and
sheat of paper I cant
neathe paper or stamp here and I want you to write and send
them to me accationaly I can by
paper at 2 cents a sheat I think I can't stand them prices well
their was some talk a few days ago of our being sent back to
Washington but I think
their is nothing of it if whe are moved
it will be towards the river it takes a good Deal of
figering to live here as the feed is hard to eat but by
taking cair in the cooking
whe still make it go down. If I had som
of the apples that are at home I would have some
fine dishes of saws and apple fliters I
have been very hungry since I have been here by time but I think I will be able to
see it through as their is but about 3 & 1/2 months
illeg. has just been here and say I shall tell you he is will but times are tuff
and sends his respects to all is a good thing the
health of the company is good thare have
been some of thoes sent to the hospital
that have been sent on here are going at
convalesant camp at
Alaxandria.
I hope they will stay their as the hardships is hard
to get through and their is more in the company
that wants to go home. I suppose you have been enjoying yoursalf fine but if their is no more
snow their than their is here the
sleigh wont mount to much this
Regt
is very much cut Down at prisant their is but
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men in it my paper is most full and I must stop
I got some Tobacco seed whe I was out in picket the other
Day I will send it in this and I want you tents which
are some protection but the weather has been fine I think I never
saw such good weather this time a
year Their was some talk that in camp that this Brigade
would be sent back but their has been nothing said the
last few days so I dont think
their is much in it I
wish
whe would go back a piece for their would
be some chance to By something to eat
their is no chance to get any thing here neathe paper
nor postage stamps as you will see this is ritten on an old
piece of copy book that was picked up [illeg.] main
and if I have to maile this and leave you the postage to
pay you must excuse me or else I [illeg.]
change our position
Their
is several that I would like to write to if I had the paper their is no sutlers supplies alowed to be shiped as the armies is so large that it require
all the transportation the government can raise to bring up supplys their is no much chance for
a forward move from here as the Rebels seam to
bee very well Situated on the other side of the the
Rappahanook
is but a Small river some
paces it is so shalow that it is easely
forded the pickets talk to each other from the banks
of the stream their is no firing amonkst the pickets but a few evenings they wer Driven in
which put the officers on their gard I think I will stop
writing about the armie and tell you that what part of
Virginia I have seen it looks offel hard it is nothing but a lot of hill and the poorist land I have most ever seen their is a
great deal of this scruby
Pine and seder grows here most all the farms are vacated
the inhabitants gon south with the exception of some few Negros
that are scatered about I wish I who
could have been at home to have
tended singing the last three evenings as they have been fine
and I suppose you had a good time
I want you to write to me and give me all the new and let
me no how the singing is going
geting along I wrote to David Early some time ago have
not herd from him yet my paper is most
full my best Respects to your Parents and all that inquire
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