I have never received
Your letter Yet	
			Shepperdville    Sept 21 1862]


	Dear Uncle
		        This is another Sunday and
as usual we have marching orders they are
to be ready to march at a moments warning
     this has been the case every since I have
been in the Service so now we are always pre-
pared on Sundays.    We have been shoved
through pretty hard we have to go ten miles 
as scouts every 24 hours so we are out of camp
half of the time. and I saw past through the
prettiest part of Kentuck yesterday morning
we were on a hill about 15000 feet high and
it was just after Sunrise there was a heavy
fog hanging over the Valleys the tops of the
hills loomed up over the fog and it looked
like a beautiful lake dotted with little
Island    then by being on the side of the hill
[crossed out word] we could see under the fog and there
was lots cornfields and houses so it looked
like a country under water. 
	Our Company is the worste fooled
Company in the Service we all thought
Early wine was a man but instead of
that he has proved himself a theif and 

tyrant and he has been notified several times
that if he did not mend his ways [crossed out] [he]
the first battle he got in would be his last.
     When we started from Indianoplis we
had the praise of the Whole City and army
and now we are about the last of Pea time
but if We had had a man in as Captain we
would have been the brag company of
Indiana for we have the Material in our
Company but what can we do when
we have no confidence in our officers
The only man We have [crossed out] [for an] among our
officers is Tom Patterson and I believe 
every man of us would die for him if we
could a dozen times he is the only man
that has the entire confidence of our men
Bill Woodward does very well but he is not
loved like Patterson is for Tom is kind and
he has the best faculty to get things for us
and he is a going to have them if Possible
he wont be put of by promises but he must
have the why and wherefores.
	Some of our boys have written to
Colfax and Morton to have his commission
held back and now we are trying to get
him ousted out  We talk of getting a petition
up of our greviences and have every one
   of the Boys and the Leiutenants to sign

it and we think if we send this to the
Governor that he can turn him out even
the Leiutenants are all down on him he
treats all as dogs only when we expect a
fright and then he is as kind as a father
for he does not forget the notice he has of
the Boys feelings toward him.
	The first cause of complaint was he
would not give us the 2 dollars premium that
he received for us he stole that [much?] he said
that it was for recruiting well that is a lie
for he never give the Leiutenants a cent
and they recruited 80 out of the hundred
and the rest of the companies their Capt
give the $2.00 to the Boys and the next
thing he cheated the [crossed out] [Boys] one of the Boys
out of 3 dollars of his pay.
	If we ask him a question about marching
he will curse and dam and he talks
to the Boys as a darned set of dogs.
and He [crossed out] [calls] does not care anything about [crossed out] [how] whether
we get our rations or not an the only things
      he
that ^ seems to care for is a way to make
money he has Stolen one pair of Mules and
sent them home.
	But the Plea on which we want
him discharged is incomptency as an officer
he does no know any thing at all about

Military Matters [crossed out] [are]
     And another thing is when we elected
him at South Bend he said he would
not appointe the Non Commission officers
until he got to Indianoplis
and then the Men that drilled the
Best and learned the fastest should
be appointed instead of that he appoints
a lot of men that does not know
Beans from corn.
        But I must stoped here for
we are have orders for 35 men from
each company to go to the Junction
and whip some rebels their we
       We have written to Colfax to have
the ability of Early wine investigated
and if you can do any thing to help
the Boys I know that you will
do it I am ordered to saddle
immediately so good Bye
		I remain Your Affect Nephew
			W.F. Peabody