Lebanon . Kentuckey
March 31st /63

Dear Mother now as
we have stoped again and got
in our tents I will endever
to pen you a few lines to
tell whare I am I am as
Healthy as I ever was and 
weigh more than I ever did
when at Home. I suppose you 
have bin looking for some
letters very anxiously from
me but as we have bin
moving so long I could not get
time to write we have moved
over twelve hundred miles
well now Mother I must 
close this untill tomorrow
for I have to got to go out on
Picket to night so good night

Well Mother this second day of Apr
finds me well I have bin out
on picket on an advanced Post
had a fine time I got all the
buttermilk I could drink at a 
House close bye my post this
morning finds me in good
spirits I have just enclosed 
45 instead
$[crossed out] [50,00] fifty Dollars to you by
express,   and $30,00 thirty in
the same envelope for
Isac Kidney    he drew $72,00 
seventy two but that is all
I [can?] get from him to
send Home I have talked to
him about spending his
money so but it dont do
any good ,   Well Mother I suppose
you will want to know what
kind of place we are in
well I cannot tell you much , 
about the town yet for I

have not bin down town
yet but am going today
we have stoped here to
Guard the town and shall 
have good times as long as 
we stay here it is a nice
little town so the bigs say
that have bin down
we are having easy times here now
as we dont keep any camp guard
we have a little Picket duty to
do which is not hard it was
rather stormy and cold the
other night whin I was [on?]
but I did not catch any cold
well mother as I have [got?]
[a pass?] to go down town
I will close so as to mail
this tell the folks I am
well and give my best respects
to all   love to you and 
Sarah & Fred Good Bye