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 one o’clock, 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 well satisfied, as well I ever expect to be while in Jeff’s 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. Hamit’s 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 things 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.