Camp Battery M 1st N.Y. a
		Savannah Ga
			Jan 10th/65
	Mr. Tunis Outwater
			Uncle
			I
will endeavor to write you a fine lines
tonight (7. P.M.) although I fear
they will not be very interesting as
I am not in the writing mood
I wrote you some time since but
owing to the irregularity of the
mail perhaps you have not recd
the letter.	Well & Uncle here
we are in the once rebel city
of Savannah and I might say
that it is not wholly purged yet
There are ladies in town who have 
been seen to cross the street rather
 than walk under the star spangled
banner. I was at a party the


other night where the lady
of the house refused to sing the
song of the “star spangled banner”
or any of those union songs but 
let me add she is an exception.
There are plenty of ladies here
who does believe in union but
enough of that. Savannah is a very
beautiful city and contains
about 20,000 inhabitants. there
were plenty of men left in the
place when the rebels left and they
have been citizens all the time
which goes to show that they
have not “robbed the cradle and
the grave” in this town at least
to procure substitutes for the army
but all along our line of march
from Atlanta here we scarecly saw
a man the whole distance I tell
you the south is getting pretty well
thinned out in regard to the
male population I pity the females

I read a letter from John the
other day in which he says that
they were going to have chickens
for Christmas dinner but let
me tell you what we had. Our
dinner consisted of chickens, turkeys,
fresh pork, sweet potatoes, honey,
warm biscuit [illegible in  original] is not that 
good enough for a soldier.
I tell you we live like kings on the
march but those good times have
gone and since then when we
were on the line of works before
the city we were glad to get rice
and fresh beef and that in very
small quantities. It is very
seldom we receive letters so
irregular is the mail. I mailed
some coppies of the Savannah Republican
to your address this morning,
will write again when I feel 
better.
	Harrison Outwater