I now sit to write to you I hope this will find you in good spirits & well I received your letters & was verry glad to get them & always shall be I am well the toe is getting along verry fast I ware my boots A little everry day I think in A few days I shall be able to join my regiment I hope so anyway for it is so loansome here to me I walk around considerable & the more I walk around the more loansom it is to me the buildings are all burnt & it looks dessolate but they are repareing them again Carlisle is miserabler than Washington for women I think friend walt I should like to Come & see you verry much I hope that I shall join my regimint soon & then shall be near Washington where I Can come & see you
Dear friend I dont now as I have anny more to write good by & may god bless you