Camp Anderson
Nov. 21 / 61
Dear Parents,
	I receive
yours of the 17 in due time
and was very glad to here
from you. I have just ben
doing ample justice to a 
good dinner of boiled cabage
and turnips and as I was
up last night [illegible marking] with the 
sick and had nothing to eat
from 5 oclock last night till
[illegible marking] noon to day you can form
a prety good idea of how I
took hold, Some of the boys 
are very low haveing caut
cold just as they were geting
over the measles and thare
is two or three that it
will go pretty hard
with, Thare is a grate
improvement in the affairs
afoot camp, we can [crossed out] [illegible] have
the pleasure of mounting
armed guardes, thare was
twenty muskets and a
[illegible] found brass canon
came in yesterday, the num
-ber of guards have redu
sed from 28 to [remainder of line illegible]
[illegible] as the Colonel sayed
of the good behavior of the 
third regiment he sayed in
a speach [illegible] that when
he came from Detroit the
first thing that he heared
was the chang of conduct
in the soldiers and that
the third regiment was
the best behaved of the two
Thare is a few horses
coming in now but not
very fast thare is about
250 tons of hay here
now and more a coming in
all the time, thay ecspect 
1,600 horses here before we
can move, if we have to 
wait for them the rebles
will be whiped before we
get ready for the field
if they follow up the
victorys that has ben gained
by the navy I want to
come home next weak if
I can get thare but I do
not know how it will be
I am well and hardy
& hope that those few lines
will find you the same
We are all comfortable qua
rted and have five stories
in our barracks which
gives us all a chance in
cold weather and evinings
which we find much
more pleasant than stan
ding around a fire in the 
open air. To day thare
was distributed 20 blankets
which was seent by the Lady
of Fentonvill and they
ecspect 70 more and 110 pair
of socks so if we have to
stay here all winter we shall
be comfortable
		No more
  at present
	   Write as soon as you
receive this		
		Yours treuly
	Harrison Traphagen