George W. Pease
Co. H
75th New York
“It is all quiet down here. We take once in a while a Rebel. We have taken over two hundred since we left New Orleans…” George Pease, Camp Stevens Louisiana, 17 Dec. 1862
Camp Stevens—December 17, 1862
Friend Frank–
I once more take my pen in hand to answer your kind letter that I received from you yesterday and I was glad to get one from you and to learn you was well at the time you wrote.
O’ Frank you don’t know how much good it does me to get a letter from an old friend that is so far away. But it would be much better to be where you are than to be away down here among the Rebels. I tell you what it is, Frank, when I get to thinking about the good times we used to have together when you worked for Aunt Rhoda. Then is the time that I feel lonesome. I suppose you hain’t [sic] forgot the time you fell down when you was to work for Aunt Rhoda. When I get to thinking about it, I have to laugh to myself. Now when you read this, if you remember where it was that you fell, you will laugh too. So I won’t say anymore about it, but will wait till I come back then.
I will tell you where it was that you fell and where you was going when you fell—that is if I live to get back now. Frank, for the news as for them they hain’t much of any. It is all quiet down here. We take once in a while a Rebel. We have taken over two hundred since we left New Orleans.
That is all the news they [sic] is to write. You wanted me to write and tell you what that engagement was, now if you have forgotten it, I won’t say anymore about it. I will have it for you to remember and if you can’t remember it, we will let it all drop. So no more this time. I am still at my old business yet and that is cooking for our Company. Now when you get this, you must read what you can and guess the rest, for I wrote this in a hurry. Write soon.
From your old and true friend. …Friend George.
Direct your letter to New Olreans, La., in care of Capt. Miles, 75 Regt. NYSV. Write soon and I will reply
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