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05_1862-02-12 Page 01
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Tipton Mo Feb 12th.. 1862 Dear father I have nothing to do today and the most of the boys are out running around town so I thought it would be agood time to write and have gone at it acordingly. the health of the soldiers is tolerably good and the weather is as nice as ever was. it makes me feel lonesome. it makes me feel like I ought to be at work and not lying around idle so much such pretty weather it puts me in mind of many such days that I have seen in Iowa after along cold spell when there would come apretty day and I would have to go to the cornfield and shuck corn out of the fodder shocks but those are by gone times and I dont know how long it will be before such times will come around again with me I am most afraid it will be some time yet. It looks to me very much like the men that has the power to carry on or to drive things ahead makes very poor use of it we have been out now over seven months and never fired agun (at the enemy) the war has been going on for nearly ayear winter is almost gone and scarcely anyting done I didnt mind it last summer but I thought when winter came we would be pretty well drilled and by the help of winter we would overrun the whole southern Confederacy
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Tipton Mo Feb 12th.. 1862 Dear father I have nothing to do today and the most of the boys are out running around town so I thought it would be agood time to write and have gone at it acordingly. the health of the soldiers is tolerably good and the weather is as nice as ever was. it makes me feel lonesome. it makes me feel like I ought to be at work and not lying around idle so much such pretty weather it puts me in mind of many such days that I have seen in Iowa after along cold spell when there would come apretty day and I would have to go to the cornfield and shuck corn out of the fodder shocks but those are by gone times and I dont know how long it will be before such times will come around again with me I am most afraid it will be some time yet. It looks to me very much like the men that has the power to carry on or to drive things ahead makes very poor use of it we have been out now over seven months and never fired agun (at the enemy) the war has been going on for nearly ayear winter is almost gone and scarcely anyting done I didnt mind it last summer but I thought when winter came we would be pretty well drilled and by the help of winter we would overrun the whole southern Confederacy
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