Dear Parents,

I received your letter on the 3rd and gloves on the 9th but have not have time to answer them before.   I thank you very much for sending the gloves.  They are the kind I wanted.  It has been very cold for a few days and they done me a great deal of good already.  We have not had any snow yet.  We are in camp near Rappahannock Station.

We have been away for six days to the Rapidan River.  We had pretty hard times but not so hard as the other troops.  I don’t know whether there will be any more moving this winter or not.  I hope that we shall go into winter quarters soon and get paid off.

I am well and hope this letter will find you the same.  If I should get home alive, I shant find many people that I am acquainted with if they continue to die off at the rate they have for the past two years.  I don’t think of much more to write.  Water call is going on now, so I will close.  My love to you all.

Goodbye,