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All our letters have to go to Washington as follows:
Jakob Weiss (Wise)
Camp D 107 Regiment
Washington DC
Follow the regiment
I will write more when I know you can send letters back.
Honored Parents, Sisters and Brothers,
I wonder if you have received the letter I wrote Nov. 5 as I have not heard from you. I wonder if you all are well. I have much time available to read a letter even if it is two miles long. I have time to read here, so write about all the news in Schemberburg.
Though John Iges and Zesch Stuwer are going to war, they would be better off staying at home hiding behind the stove. We have had bad times here, but also some good times. Better than in Kentucky where we had only hard tack and bacon. Here we get bread and bacon, some sugar and good coffee, some molasses, beans, vinegar, potatoes and rice.
We do not get as much news as you do at home, but we see things you would not like. We passed a place where 1,500 soldiers were buried in two great holes. It looked very bad. We came through Massilon, Kanton and Alliance. I saw some boys from Zurbrucks and talked to them, we all hope that this war will be over soon.
Let me tell you about the South. It is not like the North, it looks very bad, no windows on the houses and the woods are all chopped down so we can see the rebels coming. But the rebels still come, they are very bad.
I am now as healthy as I have always been, but I was sick for a long time. I hope this letter will find all of you in good health. I wrote to Johannes and wonder if the letter got through to him, but I would rather hear from you. If you have more news than will fill one page, take another piece of paper and fill that, too. I have the time to read all that you can send. Please, write as often as you can. I have not received any letters from you, and I am waiting anxiously every day for a letter and the socks and gloves you had promised. I can do without them if need be, but I would be happy to have them. I know it is a long way to send a package, but perhaps it has been sent and is in the post. If you wrote the correct address on it, I am sure I will receive it eventually.
Jacob
November 16, 1862
