I will drop you a few lines this morning to let you know something of my whereabouts we was two getting back to camp; we went over to the Depot a mile from Christiansburg took the train at 1 oclock and came down to the central then we got off and marched up to this place we got here just before sun set we had then to go to the woods and get wood and build fires we have good quarters here; there is some ten or twelve huts that will hold eight or ten men some of them have bricks in them but we had to make out last night without straw we spread one blanket and covered with one it was pretty cold but we had good fires and would get up once and a while and warm I wish I had brought me another blanket or quilt for I need two here I do not know when I will get to go home probably not for some time I am tolerably

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well satisfied as well I ever expect to be while in Jeffs service This is a verry good place to stay [more than wood is un handy?] but I suppose we will have waggons to hall in we have water very handy we are under Capt. Hamits command he sayed today that he expected some of us would have to [illegible] in a few days on a raid and that some of us would go to Wytheville to help on the rail rail road bridge Capt. says that when we get settled down and gets thing all regulated that he is going to establish a regular system of furlowing if he does I think I will get to go home in a month or six weeks I expect I shall get verry dirty before I get clothes I have nothing more of interest now. I will close I want to hear from home nightly I want you to write as soon as you get this direct your letter to Central Depot Montgomery Co.Va.