Quarantine Feb. 25. 1863
Dear Father and Mother
	          It is with a great
deal of pleasure that I once more
take my pen in hand to let you
know how I get along   I am not
verry well but I am so that I keep
jogging   but I hope this will find
you all well and enjoiing good health
the climate down hear dont agree
with me some how or other   I dont
know what the reason is but it has
give me the heaves so that I cant
stand hard driving verry well it
makes me cough so   It is quite
hot weather down hear now in the
daytime but the nights are quite
cool   the sugar cane growers
have been plowing now for 3
weeks   I suppose it is about time
for them to plant   I should think

that sugar and molasses might
be cheaper hear than it is   for this
is where a great deal of the sugar
raised   they ask 15 cents a pound
for sugar and $ a galon for molasses
and pretty poor at that   I understand
that we start for the reg this week
some time if nothing happens and
I hope and pray that we shall go
for I am tired of staying hear
for it is a low wet hole inhabited
by crockadiles frogs musquitoes
and rats   there was 1 ship and 2
schooners taken from the rebels
last saturday   they undertook
to run the blockade   they was
all loaded with cotton   they went
up by hear to Neworleans   the reg
of 9 months men that ___ troop
enlisted in went up by hear the
other day   they was going to join
banks   I expect that banks will
strike a heavy blow before long

I expect he will make this rebells
___ tremble that is if he happens
to   I dont know whether the 114 reg has
been into a battle yet or not but
they are expecting it or was the
last I heard from them. Co G is
picked out for the sharpshooters and
skermishers.  Co. G has got to be an
awful co   they can lay down and
hide almost anywhere when they
get into battle   that is the way to 
do it   I shall be glad if I ever get back
to my co.  I suppose that I have had
the very ___ so that I never will
have the smallpox  ___ perhaps you
would like to know how much
provisions is worth down hear
flower is worth 7 1/2 dollars per barrell
meal is verry hight but I dont know
how they do sell it   potatoes are 75 cts
a bushel pork $6 a hundred beef $5
a hundred rice 5 cts butter 50 cts
a pound coffee 30 cts tea 12 shilling
                             a pound

eggs 50 cts a dozen sweet potatoes
are worth 2 dollars a bushell   the pork
and beef is salt   that is all I think of
now   I suppose that you will be making
sugar before you get this   how I wish
I could be there to help you but I cant
I shall begin to look for a letter
from you before long   it haint quite
time yet but I long for the
time I shall get one from
you   my patriotism is all gone  
the southern shits has taken
it all away   suthern shits are
powerful   Jud is well   he wrote
to his mother day before yesterday
he is expecting a letter from his
daddy everry day   I had a good oister
stew yesterday   I had 10 cents and
had all I wanted to eat   I wish that
I could eat one good meal at home
now   I believe it would go good if
it wont nuthing more than pudding
and milk   well I have wrote about
all that I can think of this time so I
must close   write as soon as you get
this   direct to Co G 114 reg N.Y.S.V.
Neworleans, La.  write a good long letter
and write all of the news   this from
your ever affectionate son   Galutia York
to Zebulon and Lucy York

my letters dont go out hear as soon
as I get them wrote   I have to get my
letter read and when a steamer comes
along it goes out   the letters are mailed
at Neworleans   read this if you can   it is
a mixed up mess