Civil War Letter, 1862, (C0511)

              		Camp Muligan
			Lexington Mo
			    Nov 21st 1862
Dear Father & Mother one more to communicate
with you alltho Miss Moly Long has been
hear for some time I am not prepared to
write to you as I would like to be I was 
on a Scout when she came on for near a week,
after She was here and being pushed with
buisness since She has come up to this tim
I was glad to hear that you all was well
and doing well I wrote to you soon after we
Landed here I supose that you have received
the letter be fore this time I believe that
that ["we" stricken] I gave you a history of the Scouts that
had taken before that time so I will
give you my last Scout I took 25 of 
my men and went with Capt Nix to a little
Town near Chapel Hill and campt and
Scouted the country around for 7 days
near Lone Jack and Kingsville I viewed
the old Battle ground at Lone Jack it was
three Months to a day from the day of
the Battle to the day that I was there
it allmost made the Blood run cold in
my veins when I looked on the ground that
So many of my best friends fell on and
the Barn where I took [erasure] leave of one that I held
So dear never to see again -- ["as" stricken] our Scout
did not amount to much this time as we didnot
get any brushwhackers we captured about
one thousand pounds of Powder which was hid
in the Brush I have wrode near ,1000, miles
Scouting this fall