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01_1862-01-24 Page 01
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Tipton Missouri Jan 24th 1862 Dear brother it is such apretty day I thought I had better write another letter though I have writen two or three to you since I have got any one from you but I dont think that makes much difference I expect I have that much more time and more to write about than you have. we have changed our quarters since I wrote last we marched from Otterville here day before yesterday the distance is about 14 miles my private opinion is that we didnt better our condition much I dont expect we could find a better Camping place in Missouri than we had there youd better believe we hated to dig up our stakes and march off through the snow we had things fixed to our notion there but so goes war. Tipton is right out on the prairie. wood and water is rather scarce but the cars runs through here and we never suffer for any thing much when we are Camped anywhere near the railroad our Camp is almost right in the public square that is if there is such athing as public square in the little town of Tipton when we left our camp on the Lamine we heard that we were. coming here to go into houses but such didnt hapen to be the case we got here just about dark and had agood soft bed of snow about five inches deep to sleep in but we didnt sleep in it however
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Tipton Missouri Jan 24th 1862 Dear brother it is such apretty day I thought I had better write another letter though I have writen two or three to you since I have got any one from you but I dont think that makes much difference I expect I have that much more time and more to write about than you have. we have changed our quarters since I wrote last we marched from Otterville here day before yesterday the distance is about 14 miles my private opinion is that we didnt better our condition much I dont expect we could find a better Camping place in Missouri than we had there youd better believe we hated to dig up our stakes and march off through the snow we had things fixed to our notion there but so goes war. Tipton is right out on the prairie. wood and water is rather scarce but the cars runs through here and we never suffer for any thing much when we are Camped anywhere near the railroad our Camp is almost right in the public square that is if there is such athing as public square in the little town of Tipton when we left our camp on the Lamine we heard that we were. coming here to go into houses but such didnt hapen to be the case we got here just about dark and had agood soft bed of snow about five inches deep to sleep in but we didnt sleep in it however
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