New Camp Convalesant
     		     January 29th /63
Dear Friend Agness
		       As I have A few
lesure moments to spare I will
devote them in writing you A
few lines to let you know how
I am and where I be. my health
is not verry good this winter
and at present I am so that I
can work some although my
work is light. but I hope that
should this reach you that it may
find you and the rest of youre
folks all well for I have found 
out by sad [experiance?] that health
is the greatest blessing that any
one can be possessed with
My eyes are verry weak this

winter they are so most all the time
that I cannot see to read any in
the Newspapers of common coarse
print which makes it verry bad
for any one in such A plase
as this is. for there is no one
knows the life of A Soldier untill
they realize it for when men if
once enlisted and got to the seat
of war they dont think any more
of them than they wood of A hog
espetially after they get so that
they are not fit for duty. there
some good officers and A good
many bad ones if they can get
what they want to eat and drink
they think that their men can get
along any way and with any thing.
I landed in Washington the eighth of
September and did not join the
regament in over three weeks

we joined the Regament at Antetiam
about twelve miles up the river from
Harpers ferry in Meriland I stayed
with the Regament untill we got to
Warrenton City and there I was taken
sick and when the army moved
all the Sick was Sent to Washington
and I was among the rest I got
to the Hospital the 19.th of November
I stayed there three weeks got quite
smart but not well and then
from there I was sent to the 
Convalesant Camp the aufullfullest
place that any one ever see for
any one that is human to stay
at there I stayed two nights and
then as luck would have it I
got detailed to work on the
new barracks I came here the
12.th December am here yet at
work we get twenty five cent

per day for every day that we work
besides the Monthly pay which
makes verry good wages if we
dont lose any time, the old Camp
is all moved over here this is the place that
men half to be sent to from Hospitals to be
sent to their Regaments. I have often thought
of you and youre folks and of the times that
I was there last winter but now I am A 
good ways from there. I would like to see
you verry much and I mean to come
down there as soon as I get hom if god
should spare my life to get back. I cant
see much sines of peace. I have A good
place to sleep and have had every since
I have been here. there is about fifteen
thousand in this Camp now Agness if this
should reach you  . you must write as soon as you
can. My Respects to youre folks and
youreself So I remain youre friend untill 
N.A. Linesley ] Death [ [P. W. Cran?]