Winchester Va
                  March 22 1865
Dear Sister
     I received your letter
two days ago and see by
it that you have not
received the one that
I wrote to you since
I returned to the Regt
it must have been mislaid
for I wrote it two days
after I returned from
home.
we are having fine weather
here now for the last few
days and the mud is drying
very fast and the roads
is getting quite good again
and we will soon have
to be on the march again
but I hope not for a long

time for the Jonnys are getting
about played out. the rebs
that Genl Sheridan Captured
Came through here aboout
three weeks ago and they
were the worst looking lot
I ever saw their were about
fifteen hundred of them and
not more than half of them
had shoes or Boots on their feet
their were some in their stocking
and more with nothing on
their feet atall their were
a good many of them without
hats or Caps and hardly Clothes
enough to cover their nakedness
they all said they had done
their last fighting for Jeff Davis

we have also good news from
Sherman to day that he had
taken Goldsborough N.C. without
any fight also that Jeff Davis
wants Grant and Lee to


settle the war without
fighting any more I think the
way things look now that
the war will be over before
my time is out I ahve but
Six months more to serve from
to morrow and you need not
be affraid of my reinlisting
again for they wont want me
I dont think I will send you
one of my Potograph I had
taking when I was in N. Y. with
citizens clothes on I think it is
a very good one I dont see
why Higgins and Highs folks
dont write I ahve wrote to
them since I came back I have
wrote to all except Deb and
I dont know where to Direct
a letter to her she has not
answered the last one I wrote
to her well Cate I guess I
have wrote about Enough

this time remember me
to all the folks and
give my love to the
Children
           From Your Brother
                     Jim
                       to
                     Cate