ManningElbridge18640605_001

Head Quarters 2d Brig 1st Div. CdH
Port Hudson La. June 5th 1864

Dear Father & Mother:

Your letter of May
19th has just come to hand and I have
just set down to answer it for as
you say it is full of news. first
of all I am glad Frank is not one
of the drafted men. God has been
mercifull to you there, for if he
should go into the Army of the Potomac
the marching and those swamps at
Fair Oaks would kill him if the
bullets didn't. I am glad that
Frank called on Gene Andrews. for the
General is a gentleman and I would guess
would say a good word for me.
By the way what is Uncle John doing
now? The last I heard from him
he was in New York City and was
at work there, but said he expected to