Nov 15th 1864 Dear Friends: I received a letter from you this afternoon baring the date of Oct. 28th which I was very glad to receive for it has been some time since I have heard from you.. the last letter I recd before the one I recd today was while I at the Achafalago River in Louisiana & I have written twice since then. you said in your letter that I recd today that Hattie Dewey informed you I was in the Hospital.. I cannot imagine how she should know anything about me, for I have not written to anyone in that part of the country nor has anyone else in our Regt that I know of. I dont see why you should beleave any such report for in every letter that I have written I have told you that I was well & with the Co.. when I was in Alabama I told you that I had the chills and was left in the Hospital Tent while the Regt were opperating against Fort Gains & when they went acrost to Fort Mogan I joined the Co & have been with them ever since & have not been sick. I am now with the Co & am well as usual. on the 1st of Nov our Brig left Morganza an steamboats Illinois & N. W. Thomas for up the River.. on the 8th we disembarked at or near the Mouth of White River where we still remane. our Regt are pretty well fixed up all the boys have log houses most of them built before we came here.. five of the boys besides myself did not fancy the huts we were to occupy & we concluded to build one to suit us & so we have built a cabbin 8 x 16 & got it fixed up pretty good.. there was a detail from the Co that went to Nepolean a little Town 12 miles below on the River after Boards to fix up our shanties & Melve Flagg went along & got some nice boards & a Window & a patent lock for the dore (got them from a house they tore down we have got them fixed in nice & have a nice fine place.. now if they will just let us stay here this winter is all I ask.. we have had some pretty cool weather but no snow yet but some cold rain storms.. you spoke of John Rader trying to get his furlough renewed. I understand by one of the Boys of Co F that came to the Regt this morning who has been home that John is on his way to the Regt.. You spoke of there being some difrently about those shell I sent by McFarland.. all the shell I sent were in the little Tin Box.. there was a paper raped around the Box marked Isacc Carhart.. the only thing besides the Tine Box was a piece of Coral half as big as your fist raped in the same paper.. the paper had been sealed and torn open before it started.. but there was no Cigar Box. nothing but the Tin Box & piece of Coral. I received a coppy of the Telescope the 12th you sent me.. They have been playing smash with our Regt since we came here.. they have consolidated the Companies made 4 Companies out of 10. the letter of our Co will be changed but I dont know what it will be.. they have not got it all fixed yet. I beleave our Co & Co H are going together & be commanded by Lieut Beard of Co H.. there will be a number of Officers mustered out. it will not take so many when the Co are put togeather. I will have to stop.. the Boys are well that are will (in?) the Co from our part of the Country.
Lucius Carhart..
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Please tell me if you receive my letters as a general thing Write once every week.. it has been some time since I have wrote this time, but not so very often..
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Direct to Co G 96th Regt OVI via Memphis. Tell Oscar that 11.00 Dollars is pretty high for a substitute