Fairfax Station, Va.

January 27, 1863

Dear Parents,

I have somewhat overrun my usual week but still I hope for pardon as I have been quite busy of late. Yesterday and the day before I was in the Capt.'s office helping to fix up accounts preparatory to payday and tonight the Paymaster is in camp and has commenced work. We are to be paid from Aug. 29th, the day we organized, to Nov. 1st, ($27.30). I shall endeavor to send home the quarter part of mine as I shall have enough without it. We have got the $1.57 (?) due us for making our clothes. I have been detailed at the quartermaster this afternoon and am to go again tomorrow. Whether the detail will be permanent or not I do not know.

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Contributed by Linda M. Welch, Dartmouth College, Windsor County researcher.

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