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Mann family letters, 1851-1956
1862-06-01-Page 03
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with me, we have plenty to eat I have not been sick a day since we left Mt. P, Iowa. Wm has good health M. S. Holtzinger is acting as orderly for Coln Porter he carries messages for him Lieut Guylee is Aide de Camp for Gen. Curtis I believe I wrote all the news, no not quite our Lieut Coln has resigned we are all glad "of that" for he was drunk half of the time. Tell Mr. Allsworth I have not received any answer to my last letter to him, let him read this if he will promise to write to me. Dear Mother I have not forgotten you although I have not heard your name mentioned for a long time. oh yes I still remember your kind words the morning I left the good old home. I do not regret going to war. I think I am doing my duty. We freede a slave the other day that was as white as I am he had red hair and blue eyes he was a boy a bout 12 years of age that has paid me for all the trouble I have seen since I enlisted I think while we are freeing our Country it will be well enough to free a few human beings from bondage I must close my letter for we are going to start on a
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with me, we have plenty to eat I have not been sick a day since we left Mt. P, Iowa. Wm has good health M. S. Holtzinger is acting as orderly for Coln Porter he carries messages for him Lieut Guylee is Aide de Camp for Gen. Curtis I believe I wrote all the news, no not quite our Lieut Coln has resigned we are all glad "of that" for he was drunk half of the time. Tell Mr. Allsworth I have not received any answer to my last letter to him, let him read this if he will promise to write to me. Dear Mother I have not forgotten you although I have not heard your name mentioned for a long time. oh yes I still remember your kind words the morning I left the good old home. I do not regret going to war. I think I am doing my duty. We freede a slave the other day that was as white as I am he had red hair and blue eyes he was a boy a bout 12 years of age that has paid me for all the trouble I have seen since I enlisted I think while we are freeing our Country it will be well enough to free a few human beings from bondage I must close my letter for we are going to start on a
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