Raycide Mosher Civil War Letters

April the .26, 1864,

Dear Father & Mother,

I thought that I would write a fue linds to you to day Mc. has gone home & has tacon the Shirts & drowers to you that I Sent gest be fore he started a way I broke out on my arms & Some of the men Sed it was the Small pox. but when I was in the hospital thare was a man in the word Same word that I was he broke out with the Small pox & thay Card him out soon as he was broke out yester day the Capton went & got a dokter to & he looked at me & he sed he gest I hed he giv some bowerds & Sed he would Come up agin in the morning look at me agin So he Come up this morning looked at me he Sed it was the very Oloid Sence I have broke out I have felt better & this morning the dokter giv me Some pills I was vacenated when I first Come in the regiment So that wont hav it hard it wont Come out on my mace nor hands it is very Catern on my boddy I am up around Sume but dont go out doers much I Sleep with a man that has had the Sall pox he hed not ben vaxenated & he did not have it so hard as some they dont think that the Sall pox is hard here on focer men as the melsels are thare lots of men die with melsals. I to the docter a bout the shirt & drowers that I took of the I took of one of the gray shirts and the red drowers & done them up to Send them with Mc for he was a going to start the next morning & I discoverd that I had Some red pempls on me & I thought was a ere Sypurls. the docter tel Sed that thare would be no danger bound them out then that hang them out thare they Could are good it would be purfickly Safe for I had not got it bad anuf to give it then & Soon as I found out that I had it thought I would to you & let now how it was for in the mornind g when Mc. start of I did not no that it was the small pox but I have it very lite the says luckley that had I had ben vaxnated so that it wont make eney pits on me. we shall be pade of now in a bout a week and I Shall rite as soon as I am pade & Send Some money I want you to wach the male Clost you need not rite untill you get the letter with the money then rite & let me no you must go or send by some one once a week & oftnerr if you are wish. Good by Send me some good liver pills & a little dride fruit if have it we have plenty of Suger biscuit & meet is a bout all we have to eat. Send it bey Mack McMaster her he Coms back..

Raycide Mosher

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