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Your letter written from home the 23d was duly rec'd last night. I am glad you are so well & I am glad to know that before this you have started to visit me altho' your route may be rather roundabout.
We are still in our old camp but how long we shall be I do not know. As I wrote
you yesterday morning three Regts have gone to Fairfax Station. Whether they
will come back here or we shall be ordered forward I do not know. Under ordinary
circumstances I should think we were to be ordered forward, but Genl. Casey is
bound to keep this brigade together under his command & he says that he
shall try to get them (the three) back again. We are getting our houses so well
along and expect to be so comfortable here that we dislike to move now. The
Col's and Adjt's houses are finished & so is the Major's. Mine is so far
along, that I moved into it tonight. I am now sitting by a good rousing fire in
a fireplace & am as comfortable as I should be at home. I have just come in
from Col. Blunt's where some good singers
from among the boys have
been giving Mrs Blunt, who is here, a serenade. The men's
quarters are well along. Each company has a large building 100 feet long &
15 ft. wide. The walls are mostly up & some are getting the roofs on. The
walls are made of sticks of timber seven feet long set endwise into the ground,
& they are to be covered with the tents or boards when they can be obtained.
The boys are building some chimneys. Several secesh residences have travelled
into camp - to furnish boards & bricks.
I wish that you were here very much indeed for if we should move forward & you had no chance to come to me this winter I should feel bad -
You must write me just how you get along with your teeth. I hope you will have good luck, Can you get a temporary set that will look well & last while you are not here? I dont know but I did wrong in telling you to bring two trunks. If you can get along with one perhaps you had better. I expect we shall be paid early next month. If we are you had better get your fun before leaving Boston. I will write you if we are paid.
Capt. Ormsby's wife is coming out here about the time you will want to come & you can meet her at Springfield. By the time you reply to this you will know what time you can come, & if you will write I will talk with Capt. O. about it. If you can find somebody to come with you from Boston I wish you would.