Baton Rouge June 20/64
Folks at Home It has been some time sinc I have wrote & a good while since I have received a letter from you. the last one I got on the 5th of June.. I have not had much time to write in the past week or two. I was at Orleans one week after our Camp & Garrison Equipage turned over before we went up Red River. Since I came back we have been moving Camp. moved about 1/2 a mile on to a little better piece of ground. it is a good deal of trouble to move now for we have to fix up very nice put on a good deal of style.. in fact this is quite a Stylish place but not so much so now as it used to be yet there is considerable business done about as much as there is in Delaware.. there are a great many loitiyers come in from Country to trade.. they have not been permitted to come in the lines untill this summer.. and they are very glad of the chaunce.. they were very distitue of closing and some things to Eat. they have plenty of Garden trash but no flour they are mostly woman that come in. Some of them appear very Genteel cleaver and nice. others appear very crank and lofty & seem to dislike the soldiers but necesity compeles them to be a little more humble than they otherwise would be.. Some of them bring in garden trash to sell.. they Sell Cabage heads 10 & 20 cts a pound Milk 10 cts a pint Eggs 65 cts per dozen (and according) We are having some pretty warm weather now with a shower of rain most every day.. it is quite cool when it is raining but when the Sun comes out it is warm weather better I can stand it to work better here than I used to at home and it is a great deal warmer.. One good thing I am not as fleshy.. I do not weigh as much as I did at home.. I weighed 157 when at home & I now weigh 145.. The red River expedition was rather hard on us it took of some of the weight.. but if we stay here very long I expect we will fat for uncle Sam is feeding us up pretty well now.. they are going to get us in good order by the time our two years are up so we will make good Veterans.. We drawed pay the other day. the first for some time. I am going to send about 70 Dollars home by express I want to start it to day. I will sent it to Delaware. I wish you would put it to some use for after while Greenbacks are not going to be worth much and I would like some good property or other money instead of them. Sargt John M. Cryder of our Co is going to start home on Furlough in about a week he lives about three miles west of Delaware on the road that old Schons Tavern stands on.. if you want to see him he can tell you all about the affars.. he says he will bring anything you want to send.. and I would like to have you send me another pair of Socks, them that you sent are midling good yet but I wore them on all of that big march and it give them a big trial. I have pleanty of yarn to mend them with you need not send any more. I would like to have you send me a pair of Calfskin Shoes some after the style of them I ware at home. doubled soles but not nailed for it spoiles them.. midling fine uppers & good no 8. The Red River expedition was very hard on Shoe leather & these government shoes are not worth much.. Shoes wil do as well as boots for me and they will not cost as much that is why I send for them. I cannot get a pair of shoes here in the City for less than five Dollars boots 10 Dollars.. I want also a Military Cap & two Shirts they make us all ware Caps now & the Caps that we draw are very poor do not last very long in fact all of their Clothing is very poor we have to keep drawing most all the time. I want just a midling good Cap with a cover. one of the right style they will know what you want where you get it.. it wants to be the same siz of my Caps at home one to fit Father’s head will be about right.. & my shirts I want half wool half cotton with the seams sowed down. I have good reason for it to.. Make them something after the Style of the ones I wore at home.. these articles will cost about 10 Dollars I suppose & down here they will cost 18 Dollars. I will send verces got up about our fight near Mansfield about as correct as anything I have seen. I beleave I have wrote about enough for this time remember if you send the Shoes to get No. 8 good sice. I will send some money and you use that.. I want to send it this afternoon if I have time to go down to the express office I send in this letter an Order on Andrew Finley for Ten Dollars for money I lent Jo Griggs some time when you have a little Spare time I wish you would go up and get it he lives up near Rodney Smiths.. I have been having the Toothache some in past week. Some of the time my face was swelled so that I could eat nothing but bread & Coffee getting better now the Boys are well as usual. Give my best regards to the yong Folkes of Berlin & all of the relatives. Write soon and oblige
Lu Carhart ð 7 3