Franklin County: Josiah Bloss to His Sister, April 30, 1863
Summary:
Josiah Bloss writes to his sister of the food they have in camp.
His Sister
April 30. 1863
Point Pleasent
Dear Sister
I take the most and favorable opportunity to inform you that I am well and in great health at
the present and I hope this will find you the same. There is great
rumors here that our men is in Fredericksburg after fighting a
severe Battle but I don't know how
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true it is. This is a
[unclear: runing] hand writing that I have wrote on the other side I want you to send
me some gun shelack for [unclear: put] plates in a ring and send me a five cent
piece of silver. I am going to make a ring of a bone of a horse.
I have had a belly full of apples today on the steam boat, there
was a barrel of on the boat for the [unclear: suttlers] and the
end of the barrel was open and I eat as many as I could eat. the
[unclear: suttler] sells the apples for five cents a piece.
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I have firstrate times here plenty of fresh bread and I buy butter of the [unclear: suttler] for fifty cents a pound. and lots of mustard and pepper. we have good living here I don't care if uncle [deleted: sams] sam lets me stay here till the war is over if he gives me plenty of bread pork and beans and potatoes coffee and sugar and tea, vinegar molasses candles soap vegetables soap. The above is what we draw here to eat and candles to burn,
from your Brother
Josiah Bloss
Co. K. 17 Pa Cavalry
Washington
D.C.
