BELLEPLAIN, NY, C. TYREL, CIVIL WAR, NEW YORK

Copyright (c) 2001 by Thomas Dunne (dunne1@.usadatanet.net)

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Transcribed by Thomas L Dunne, descendant of Mortimer S Tyrel, who is the brother of the
Charles M Tyrel of the 22nd New York Inf.

                                                                       Camp near Belleplain Feb
                                                                          9th   1863

     Dear Brother Morte I received your kind letter and also one enclosed from sister Emme I
was verry glad to hear from you  I am quite well now although not as tough as I was before I
was wounded I am back to the Regt again I came back the ??? of Jan and have been first on duty
this morning for the first time it is verry hard times here our wood and water is hard to get
we have to fetch it a good ways  I had to stop writing yesterday to tend some buns that I was
cooking and now will finish my letter there is no news to write of any account except the
moving of the 9th Army Corps to Fortress Monroe and the ??reserve to Alexandria which I think
is a good sign that there will be no more fighting in this vicinity and there is some talk of
sending the two years troops home I hope they will but I must close my best wishes to all the
friends good bye fore the present C M Tyrel

                                                                           Feb 10th /63

     Dear sister Emme I received your kind letter and I was glad to find that you had not
forgoten me while I have been away off down here among the heathen and among theaves robers and
cutthroats you do not know how glad I be when I get a letter if you did you would write every
day when I get a leter from home it cheers me up for many a day I hope one day / and that
before long / to see you all and talk over old times but I must close good bye C M Tyrel   to
Emme Tyrel