New Camp Convalescent March 6th /63
Dear Friend Agness
		       youre letter
came to      hand last night and
I haste to answer it. it found me
so as to be around but not so
that I am able to do any thing
that is work. they have discharged
A good many from the work
and sent them to their Reg,
so that they emtied the Barrack
that I was wardmaster and that
knocked me out of A job
for I am not able to go out of
dores to work. I have got A
verry bad cough the worst that
I have had in two years. there
is A good many in this Camp
there is A squad comes here
most every day from Hospitals
and then some leaves here
every day for their Regamints
they go from here to [Strgelers?]

Camp and from there to the
Reg. when A Core is called
for then all is sent from
there that belongs to it
sometimes two or three Cores is
called in one day. we have
had A verrry pleasant winter
we have not had much
cold weather but it has
been verry bad getting around
since New Years for it rains
or snows about twice A week
the ground is redish Clay and
it dont take but A little rain
to make it verry bad getting
around. you say that you are
having lots of fun there this
winter I would like to be
there with you and help
have some funn I may get
back some time and if i do
I will come down and see about
it I want to come down there

and have A good swing with
you for I like to swing so well
you Know or go up and slide
down hill with the girls.
tell youre father if there had
of been slaying may be that
I would of been along to go
down in the woods I dont
like to go down there with
A waggon the road is so
rough. for I think that I
would rather be there drawing
[Some?] boys than to be here
Soldiering it ant so funny
as some folks thinks of.
I dont look much now as I did
last winter I dont know
how much that I would
weigh but I think about 150 
I am the poorest that I have
been in A good while.
I have not had any pay
only A little extry pay

since I started from Detroit
A little would come good
I reckon I dont think of any
thing more to write at present
My Respects to youre folks
and yourself So I bid you
good by for this time
N.W. Lindsley     J.W. Craw



Friend Charles
		I was glad to
get A few lines from you
and to hear that you war
well and having good times
out there and now my
advise to you is that you
wont take A foolish notion
in your head as I did to inlist
for you are better off at home or any
one else. Remember till we meet
Charles Lindsley    good By    J.W. Cran