Discusses guard duty at Fort Curtis. Includes envelope. Transcription: Fort Curtis Helena Ark April 21st 1863 Dear Father I sit down to write you a few lines to let you know that I am well at present and that our Company is sationed at the Fort we was detached from the regiment on the 11th of this month we don ?t have any duty to do onley to gard the fort there is a mess every day on gard while we stay here we will have a good time we have good houses for to stay in we got paid the 15th of this Month we got fifty-two dollars I want to send $40 home I willl send 20 in this letter and after I g
Discusses guard duty at Fort Curtis. Includes envelope. Transcription: Fort Curtis Helena Ark April 21st 1863 Dear Father I sit down to write you a few lines to let you know that I am well at present and that our Company is sationed at the Fort we was detached from the regiment on the 11th of this month we don ?t have any duty to do onley to gard the fort there is a mess every day on gard while we stay here we will have a good time we have good houses for to stay in we got paid the 15th of this Month we got fifty-two dollars I want to send $40 home I willl send 20 in this letter and after I get an answer to this letter I will send the rest Father I have not got any letters from you since the 18th of March I wrote you a l letter about that time and I have not got any answer for it yet I got a letter from John the 8th of this month that was the day we landed here here from the Yazzo Pass[Yazoo Pass] you can direct your letters as you have ben doing so no more at present your son David T. Massey Title: Letter signed David T. Massey, Fort Curtis, Helena, Ark., to his father [Nathan Massey], April 21, 1863 . 21 April 1863. Massey, David T., -1864
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