Mouth of White River, Arkansas Dec 13th 1864
Dear Friends.
Two weeks ago last Saturday since I received a letter from you & now it is Tuesday in the afternoon.. I then rec’d letter from Almeda and answered it the Sunday following.. Since then I have delayed writing untill now and all the while have been anxiously waiting & looking for a letter from you & have finely given up all hopes of getting a letter & thought I would write one. I dont know as I can complain of your not writing oftener for I sometimes neglect to write as often as I should.. Still I would like to hear from you oftener.. your letters ought to come through in five days now & if they are not miscarried they will. Some of they boys recd letters that were only four days on the way.. we are now having pretty cold weather. keeps us busy most of the time in getting wood to keep us warm. but we are very well fixed for cold weather. our room is as comfortable as most any log cabbin. for the past week it has been very cold. some days cold enough to freeze in the middle of the day. there came up a rain storm turned cold Snowed about one inch & froze everything up as sollid as a brick.. I expect about next week it will be warm & pleasent. the weather here is to much like it is in Ohio changeable.. the 96th Battalion & our Regiment of Mounted Infantry and one Battery are all that are at the Post at present. our Brigade were ordered back to Morganzia they left (all but our Battalion) last week. I beleave I told you about our Regiment being smashed up.. of the 10 Companies that were in the Regt they have made into a Battalion of five Co. called the 90th Battalion. lettered. A. B. C. D. E. the letter of Co now is D. Commanded by Capt Beard formily Lieut of Co H. Co A. are acting Provost guards Capt Eastman Provost Marshall.. a detachment of the Battalion have gone to guard some prisoners down to N. Orleans & a squad gone up to Island “No” CC to guard some wood chopers. so you see the Bat are getting pretty scattered.. the Boys from our part of the country are well as usual there are a number of the “Bat that have sore eyes.. my eyes have been pretty sore but are some better.. other ways I am well as usual.. you will perceive by my writing that there is something ales me. My eyes are weak. & it is somewhat dark in our cabbin so you see I make awful work writing.. I will not write much this time. when I get a letter I will write more. Yours with respect Lu. Carhart..