Fortress Munroe. Jan 14th, 63
Dear Father and Mother
               It is with much
pleasure that I take my pen in
hand to write a few lines to
you to let you know how I get
along   I am well and enjoiing myself
as well as I can.  and I hope this
will find you well.  They have got
me on another boat and it is laying
out in the bay   we come on day before
yesterday and will probably lay
hear a week or two before we start
but when we do start we shall go
to Neworleans   we are on a
sailing Craft this time but the
bunks are the same as on the
old Atlantic   there is 7 ships
going with us this time and there
was __ went before.  I expect there is
more left in lice on this boat than

there is of men for it has been
used for carrying soldiers ever
since the beginning of the war.
it is rather cold hear to day.  I received
your most prescious letter of the 7th
day before yesterday and you cant
imagine how glad I felt for I expected
to start right of and I expected if
I did not get one that day to not
get one at all for I expected to start.
I wrote a few lines in the fournoon
and sent it before I got your letter.
I cant see what the reason is
that my letters dont go any straiter
or quicker   I guess you have
not got one letter that I have wrote
for if you had you would have got
one quicker for I have written
as often as once a week   Jud is
well   he got a letter from his mother
yesterday   he haint had a letter 
from his father yet.  I got Uncle

Johns letter yesterday   yours
come the quickest.  Yes I got ___
and Lucys letters.  Yes Ma I feel
perfectly contented   you thought
the tone of my writing told that I
was home sick   there is not a man
in the army that would like to see
home any better than I should
but still I haint home sick.  and
Ma I think you are rather foolish (if
I must say so) to worry so much
about me.  for there will be some
times that you wont hear from
me in 5 or 6 weeks and perhaps
that time is not far distant for
if I go to Texas perhaps you
wont hear from me in that length
of time but dont worry for it dont
do any good (but then I dont know
if you can help it)   it was the small
pox that I vaxcinated for   there was
2 or 3 men come down with it in the
Chesapeake hospital

yes it worked well when I was vaxcinated
before and it did this time.  It was more
that was down hear from negro city   it
was his brother that died but not in
our Co.   Sam Bennet is about well
he is going with us   Dorr is gaining
slowly   there dident none of their friends
come to see them.  Hiram Gilbert
is verry sick   he never can get well
I dont know what the matter is
knowboddy knows what Jo done with
his money   he had 10 dollars when he
died   he got his pay when I did.  my cloths
wear first rate   there haint a hole in
none of them   they have been riped
some but I have kept them sowed up.
Yes I should think hank had done
extraordinair well for him   I haint
sure but he will make something yet.
I got a letter from Sidney the other day
Dave and John__ french has got over
the itch..  I dont believe you can read
this for I have to write with my port-
folio on my knee so I cant write verry
good.  well I have wrote it about all so
I must close.  write as soon as
you get this.  direct to Chesapeak
General hospital   write soon.  I
remain as ever your ever loveing
son  Galutia York to Zebulon and
Lucy York.  there is 200 more men
comeing on board now.  I thank you
verry much for that fine comb   I expect
to have a use for it before long   I am
verry much obliged for those kisses

tell hank and sidney that I shall
tend to their cases when I get home.
oringes is only 50 cents a bushel in Neworleans
wont I ___ I will eat one for each one of you
When this you see
remember who wrote it