Blue Ridge Nov. 8th 1862

Dear Wife,

I commence this letter today but don’t know when or where I shall finish it. We have been on the move for the last ten days but have not got far into the rebel country. We were sent up the Shenandoah to guard a ford and then on the mountain to do picket duty, then up to Shannondale, and now our regiment has crossed the mountain, all but this company, and that is to follow tomorrow.

We have seen a few Rebs and some of our men have been shot at but no one [was] hurt and I don’t think we are likely to lose many men in that way, but why quit

Jefferson in the woods, Nov. 6th

Dear Wife,

I sent you a line yesterday but for fear it did not go to the office and having an opportunity to send by Dr. Casey, I thought I would add a line this morning. We are camped in the woods about a mile from where we were yesterday; we are roaming about like a band of Indians, camping in the woods at night and wandering daytimes.

Last night it rained some, which was not so pleasant as it might be, but we get along very well. It don't take long to hang up our blankets and they make quite a shelter. The worst of it is [that] we want them under us

Jefferson, Nov 5th

Dear Wife,

I am not in a situation to write you much of a letter and I don’t know when I can send it. We have been out on chase since Monday morn. Our advance is as far down as Shannondale, which is about four miles from here. We are out in the woods, there are some Rebs about here. Our men took 14 last night, but I have not seen one wild yet.

There is a fight going on now as there was the last time I wrote. I have not heard anything about that fight, I doubt as it was anything but a shelling out pickets.

You wrote me that you hoped that my

Loudon Heights Nov. 2nd 62

Dear Wife,

I have another opportunity to write you and make haste to improve it. I got last Sunday’s letter last night, the reason I did not get it any sooner was that we have moved about so much that it could not catch us, but we are now posted only five miles from where we where and as near Harpers Ferry as we were before, so if you have sent anything I shall be likely to get it.

Capt. has not got his box yet but I guess he will tomorrow. Mark got his but his things were in bad shape. A bottle of catsup was broken in it. It fixed out his other