August the 1st/64 you must do the best you can & try to get along as best you can til I get home our regt has not had any chance to reinlist yet & the talk is that we are not going to get the chance & some of the boys dont like it as they expected to get to go home soon on a furlow troops has bin coming in here for a weak or more & it look like a move of some sort is on foot I understand that the rebels was leaving atchafalaya I hope so I am your must rept til deth we make our own buiscust now we have bacon & beans = write longer & beter not but what I can read it but in order that you may improve Mack Monday August the 1st/64 Morganza Louisiana 1864 My dear Elizabeth to day is lonsum & all is still & warm this morning finds me well as also I hope that this leter may find you well as also all the family thare is nothing going on in camp & the wether is warm & dry the boys in camp is laying round some are reading yesterdays paper some are writing some are talking some are gon on picket some are gon on fating[?] duty yesterday was sunday but we only know it by heresay as by counting as the the day is never disignated by a change of buisnez some times of a sunday we scout or work all day & on monday do nothing but lay around since I rite the above I was caled on to garde one of our boys while he dug up a stump for not going on picket this morning some of the boys cuts up mitty when they have to do somthing that they do not like to do but I find that the best way to do is to just go on & say nothing hoping that the day will com some day that we will not have a master I have a pain in my head to day & do not feal like writing as much as usial the mail come in to day & thare was nothing for me & now do not consider that my letter is a emblem of my love for you for it a much difers from it that thare is no comparison I hope tho soon to get a long & sweet letter from you & the children Patrick J. Anderson http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=patanderson 9654 Baltimore Avenue, Laurel, Maryland 20723