April 3d 1863 Bowling Green Ky
		Dear Pa and Ma
I now take the opportunity
to inform you of my health
I am not verry well at
present but I hope these few
lines will find you both
enjoying good health. our Regt
have just recieved marching
orders and they leave here to
morrow and as I am not
able to march with them
I Shall in all probability
be sent back to Louisville
So dont write to me any more
until you hear from me again
So you will know where to
direct your letters to. I wish
I was able to go with the boys
but I am not So there is
no use in talking about

it have you got the letters
with the ring in it yet or
not when you write tell me
I sent one letter with one
ring in it and one with three
and a heart I made the white
ring for Fanny and the heart
for Willie. and the other ones
I got of the boys in our
company. the boys are all in
good Spirits and are fast for the
march we do not know where
we are agoing to move to now
but we guess we are agoing
to cumberland gap. even our
officers do not know for certain
where we ar going but they
think as we do. I am almost
out of money. again it is awful
Dear business to be sick in
camp I can tell you. the
Doctors told me that I must
eat potatoes and onions and

apples or have the scurvy
and I dont want to have
that just yet onions are
four dollars a bushels. and
potatoes [crossed out] [two] two dollars and ½
apples 4 for a dime small at 
that. and I have lived on
them all the time for quite
a while and it takes of
money verry fast I can tell
you. we are all aganst the
South heart and hand and
intend to whip them if
it takes our own lives
write as soon as you
get this and tell all the
news we are whipping the
the rebbels verry badly every
where we fight them we
all think the war will
end by fall at any rate
now as I have no more
to say I will Stop Good bie
from your ever true and loving son I G A