ManningElbridge18630113_004

x? x? Jan. 1863, Falmouth, Va. Now attached to
2d Army Corps HQ. Commission + [illegible] (Anti-nigger) Very!

Handkerchiefs, some nice soap
and a sponge, toothbrush and a
razor and strap. I can't get any
such things here for love or money.
I guess some cake would keep well
enough and anything to eat will go
bully only don't put anything in that
can break and all over my
shirts the same as that jam did.
Send me a little bag with some needle,
thread & pins and all those fixings
"Every man his own Seamstress!"
Send me some more Pepermint. some
more Black Peper. Yeast Pod Powders
nutmegs & a few cloves. those things
we miss very much indeed out here.
Put in any good story books you can
get for me around the house and
I guess I can get them all safe.

And I want you and Father to get
your pictures taken and put in the
box and now I am so important
as to be at Camp [??] you may
send me that old black hand