Camp near Sharpburg
           Sept 3. 1862
Dear Broth & Brothers
                   I embrace
this oportunity or letting
you hear from me I do
not know whether you can
read this or not but I will
my best but in ashasty
a Style as possible as the
mail leaves soon. I will
try and write better the
next time. I supose you
would like to know how Sol
drering goes I can tell you 
in few words which will
Satisfy a boy or any one who
wishes to enter Service with
out any knowedge their is
no business of any kind I
		with
could compare^ that you have 
at home. and no business

hearder and wore responsible
every man has to be at his
post to the minute and while
their [illegible] if not prompt in
performing his duties is pun
ished harshly many of our
regi I have seen going along
with 60 lbs of stones in a bag
on his back for 24 hours without
rations for not doing as he Should
or [illegible] he has
to march all the time round a 
   n
ri^g [illegible] of a guard others [illegible] 
on a barrel for a great length
of time cary rails on their
back this is all done in
the hot Sun the Sun is 
far warmer than in Clarion
Co. then again we have no
tents no Soft beds like
you have at home no good
brakfasts to Sit dow to
and if Sick nothing to [illegible]

us that is good our bed is
the groud with our blankets
beneath our Shelter is
the Sheys with the blankets
to protects us from the hevy 
dew and rain no brothers
be contented at home and
be thankful that you
can be their and if you
have to go their is time
enough. I need not
tell you what hardships
I have endured. Their is
no [illegible] to many poor
soldier dies of Sickness our
dumb bruits are more 
confotable so far as human  
can be compared yet this 
noble cause must be defen
ded and Sustained and
the north has to do it their
is more lamentation about
a horse or cow that dies at
home a natural death [illegible]
ier that dies here and our
[mode?] of interning them is the
Same only we roll the dead
Soldier in a blanket and
you do not. I Still think and
hope this war will End Soon
in Some form I fee well
enough contented and am very
glad I do for it is a death 
stroke for a home Sick Sol
dier their was a review of
100,000 troops today it was a 
[illegible] Sight the President was
present 22 Shots were fired
at of the large Cannon that
would Satisfy you if nothing
else would. I have gotten
So use to hearing the cannon
that it does not wake me
if Sleeping I have Seen Sights
that if I live to return I
can interest you and all the
brothers a long time. I have
got but one letter from home
Since I left. I think it verry
hard I have wrote 11 letter to
our family Amos you Father & Mother