Mentions that he will try to get a transfer to the 120th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment. Describes the weather. Transcription: Memphis Tenn Dec the 14th 1862 Dear Father it is with plesher that I take my pen in hand to address you a fu lines to let you know that I am Well at presant hopeing those fu lines my may find you injoying the saim blessings I have nuthing to Write to you at presan any more than thare is a big move going on in the army tha are pressing all the steam boats in to the survis that Comes to this plac tha are geting a larg fleet at this place but I doant think that our
Mentions that he will try to get a transfer to the 120th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment. Describes the weather. Transcription: Memphis Tenn Dec the 14th 1862 Dear Father it is with plesher that I take my pen in hand to address you a fu lines to let you know that I am Well at presant hopeing those fu lines my may find you injoying the saim blessings I have nuthing to Write to you at presan any more than thare is a big move going on in the army tha are pressing all the steam boats in to the survis that Comes to this plac tha are geting a larg fleet at this place but I doant think that our Reg Will go From the face that We doant know nothing nor We never Will untell We get New officers for our Regt I am going to try to get a transfur to the 120th Ill vol in to the saim Co that Henr Glass[Henry Glass] is in not that I dislike the offecers of our Co but the Field officer of the reg doant know as much as the privets in the rank We are under strickter orders than any Reg in this Command thare is not but too men aloud to leave the Reg at onest at the saim time thare is as much as 20 men a bout leaf of absents at onest out of every Reg but this if I Can I am going to get out of this Reg that is if a if I can on good turms and fuirones I nuthing more to Write to you at presant one day later I Will give you a small idear of the Wether here this Morning the Wether here is Coald and rainey the starm raiged very high here last night I am in the Fort this morning With the 120th Reg I Come down from our Reg on yesterday evening with Lutenent Mitchel he Was out and taken diner With me yesterday thare is a gradel[great deal] of sickness in Camp but as to my self I am well and have been every cence I left metropolis the rain and wind still falles With furce the wind is Coald and rain so no more at presant but I still remain yours truly With respect untell Deth Joseph A Fardell Title: Letter signed Joseph A. Fardell, Memphis, Tennessee, to Father, December 14, 1862 . 14 Decembe
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