Camp Washington N. C.
Oct the 20 1861
Dear Father and Mother & Brother & Sister to
you all you now not half how glad I was to rective a letter form
you and read hit I was glad that I co(u)ld read hit. hit found
us well I hoping this few lines may find you all well I have changed
sense I left home I think if I was at home you think of me about
what I said when we parted our last time. You told me that you intended
to quit drinking and swearing and go to work right when a man promises
himself anything and sticks to it he is mighty apt to do it you
know that I use to thot I could not talk with out an oath but since
I got in camp I hardly ever think about swearing because I have
something to do and to think about and I think if you will look
around and see where your children is and where they may be and
that before long that you would have something to do and to think
about as well as I Pa I want you to become religious and
pray for us poor soldiers for I know that if you were hear a while
and see and hear what is going on in camps day and night & the
enemy high and you expecting to have to go in to a battle and fight
the enemy in the defense of your country and probably never come
out alive and you knowing all the time that as the fait is so be
it unto you So repent Believe & be baptised and ye shall be
saved father you may never see us boys anymore on earth But if we
never meet on earth again I want us all to be prepared to meet in
a better world than this father mother brothers & sisters I
want to see you all very much but we may never have the pleasure
of so doing I will close by asscribing myself your son and brother
until Death
General M. Jackson S.C.O.
Camp Washington N. C. Oct
the 20 1861
Dear Brother L.F.C. I now set my self down to let you
know that I receive your letter last Friday hit found us well and
well satisfied and hope these few lines will reach you injoying
the same blessing Dock you wrote to me about my interagatories rit
to you in my other letter about ___ corn and fower and how I wanted
it don and also in Verlinda letter what I want don about the fower
as I told Verlinda the way I left home to tell father to let her
father pull that over at his hous if he wanted to and now Dock if
they wont do as I left the riting with you and ____ and if they
wont do that away just let them ____ tell father that he need not
be uneasy about the money I o him if I live to drawing money I will
pay him I'm along wais from home they must do just as I am
want them to do if not I shall come home wen I get ready tel old
mack he must quit grumbling about the way I left my fair and if
he wont I wont no whether any of them will see me ther I haven't
got nothing to rite about my afares beyond more about that then
I no and as to how camp fair we fair very well we sleep on
straw and pinetops but it makes a very good bed I must come to close
I will rite to father on the other side it is agiting work and I
must come to a close G. M. Jackson Mother Alfred
is gumping and skibin and pling (playing) marvels jest like he was
at home.
