Camp Belger  Oct 24 1862
Affectionate Brother
                         Henry
       it is with much pleasure
that I take my pen in hand to
inform you how I get along and
in answer to your most welcomed
letter which I received yesterday
I am well as usual and
I hope this will find you the same
I am glad to hear you are all well
it is a pretty sickly time around
there   you must all be carefull and
not get the soar throat for I want
to see you all when I come home
but not knowing when that time
will be   but I hope it haint far distant
we ar on Camp Belger yet and
and probably shall stay hear all winter

our company was ordered to go yesterday
but before we could get rigged the
order came not to go so we unpaked
our napsacks but Capt Tucker
was determined to go some where
so a part of our company went up and
camped out   I should have went
but I was on guard   they went
off 5 or 6 miles  Henry I wish you
could be hear a little while   I
guess that I shall hire a horse and
come home next Saturday night
and get back Monday morning
tell ma I was verry thankfull
for that paper that she sent to
me but sumebody stole it before
I got a chance to read it   if you
could get another one pretty handy
I wish you would send it on
I wish I could get a chance to pick
up some walnuts and chestnuts

and send home but I cannot get
off the ground now without an officer
is Pa agoing to send me a box of
stuff   if he is tell him to do down to
Warrens and tell him I want
him to send me some of the
best cheese he has got   send me
some butter and get a few good
apples   I want some for myself
and some for Capt Tucker and
send me a few onions   they
are the best thing that I can
get to eat to keep away sickness
I cant get an onion short of a cent
a piece   send me some cake and
a good sweetened johnnycake   Dan
has wrote to Abey   I dont know
what he has sent for but you
can put them in so we can tell
them apart.  put in a little
peice of maple sugar

I dont think of anything more that I want
now
  Tell Pa if he will send
it I will stand the charges when
I get home   there was 2 boys run
away the other day   they was
taken in Pennsylvania and
brought back   they are in the
guard house now waiting their
trial   one of them will have to
be shot I guess for it is the
third time he has run away
Henry I have got a bully good
rifle   it will carry a ball 500 yds
I think you will make a fortune
taking photographs   I should not think
you would wait untill the ___ work
was done   I think the photograph you
sent me looked quite natural   I have
wrote about all that I can think of this time
so I must close   you must write soon
this from your ever loving brother
                             Galutia
York to Henry York
H.C.Y.		G.H.Y.
I guess Pa got one foot out of
                     the traces
when he sold his hops didnt he

direct as before