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        Camp Park Sunday May 31st
    Dear Lucy
	  I have just received yours
of the 26th glad to hear you ware
enjoying yourself I am all right
it is as pleasent a day as
any one could wish to see
we have had nothing else but
pleasent weather lately we are
having a very easy time in
camp the least to do of any
time since I enlisted
we are camped in the woods in
a good shaid withe a good Spring
of close by the 3d Indiania cavalry
are close to us & the 7th Penn..
camp joins them I am sitting
in front of my tent with my
back against a big tree writing
this letter thare is a goodeal
going on around me some of the

boys are washing some a baking
some a carrying on & some
in their tents asleep the band
is close by a playing and thare
is full enough going on for a
fellow to write a letter good
it is most night if I was
in [York?] I dont beleive I should
be at Home dont know but
[illegible in original] am just as well here and
perhaps better of wish I could
think so we enjoy ourselves first
rate most of the time wish I
could make you beleive it
it is true I enjoy myself better
than I expected to when I left
home it's true as preaching just
beleive it wont you I have no
war news to write for I have
not been out lately thare is but
little scouting done in this department
lately I have hardly been out of
camp for the last two weeks and

every thing is quiet on on picket
line although the Reble army are
within 25 miles of us we have
packed all our over coats and
extra cloths and they are agoing
to be stored somwhare till fall
when we can have them again we
are order to be ready to march
at any time & I should not won-
-der if we did before long the news
from Vicksburg is good it will
be beter when we hear it is
taken we get the news every day
now papers only 10 cents a piece
I dont know [illegible in original] Angle
is now I saw him last sunday
some of our boys went to the
hospital since and they ware
gone I persume he will let you
know whare he is he was well
when I saw him the boy that I
wrote you about being wounded is
likely to get well the ball went
through his lung just below his heart

heart he feels first rate
I wonder if Ben Davis would come
back if he could get a Commission
I know a number in the same fix
I am afraid be would not have [illegible in original]
in a Sergeants boots till this time if
he had been withe the regiment all
the time I beleive he was a coward
I never saw him under fire but once
and then he wanted to fall out of
the ranks said he was scick
please keep this to your self for my sake
T. Davis, H. Simmons are well. hold their [illegible in original]
office yet. I get along with them first rate
Hank is a first rate soldier but [illegible in original] Tom
is Tom.. and that is all you can make
of him Frank is well and seams
to enjoy himself first rate he enquires
how you are getting along often
I guess he will write aline in this for you tho
thare has been a number home on 
furlough from this regiment they have to
tell such big lies to get one that I
aint agoing to try very soon
has will S William Shipman got
a comishion in the army
J Deleforce is well thare is no
such thing known as company
bugler in this regiment
I guess he & Miss Butler is all
right for he wrote her a long
letter to day       Yours Truly
		     Othniel