Camp 1st NH Battery Brandy Station, Va March 16th 1864 Dear Brother Yours of the 6th was rec. last Sunday with much pleasure, and found me enjoying good health and in in good Spirets. To Night I rec. a letter from Kitt. She is in NY again has been at work one Week. She gets $7.00 a Week. She said She had a good visit at your house and at all the other Places she visited. I have not heard from Laura since they Moved to Lake Village. That is a thrifty little place and I hope Alf. will do well there. Well!! you did give the Copper Headsthras -hing Election, didn't you. _______________________________ 2 Bully for you, it is a good thing and will be a Death blow to the hopes of the Rebes of rec. help and encouragement from the North. I Cheered as loud as I could when I read how handsomly you whiped the Sneaking Skunks, the rebel Sympathisers. There was some hurraughing for a while in our Camp you better believe, when we had assertaned the result of the Election. Then the Miserable Traitors did not like it to see the Soldiers going home to vote did they. Well they might dislike to see them going home for that purpos, for they well knew that the Soldiers had been Battleing against Armed Traitors in the Field _____________________________ 3 to long, to stand much of the blarney of Traitors at home. Soldiers know what their fighting for, and have gone through to many hardsh -ips and periled their lifes to many times for the great Princaple of Liberty and the , to have their feelings trifled with to much, by the base Cowards. We Soldiers rejoice as much over the victory you won as you do, it gives us new encouragement, hope and Strength, for we feel that we shall be sus- -tained by our Friends and the Gov. at home. I am very glad to hear that buisness is so good in Nashua, and also to hear that have done so well the past year. I believe I might lay up a little something ___________________________________ 4 now if I was at home. They pay big pay now adays. I heard that they have got a job to build Locomotives at the Big Shop in Manchester. That will make buisness tip top there. They will find it hard work to get help enough for a while I reckon. Wouldent I love to get a Job there about now if my turn of Enlistment was up. There is nothing new as regards us as a battery of special interest. There is some talk of our geting 2 more Guns but it is not sure, but I hope we shall, according to the late Orders of the President it looks as though Lieut. Gen. U S Grant was to Command this Army, place for him! yet he may do well, all this Army wants is a Good Gen. and let him handle it after his own stile. There is no indications of there being a forward move for several weeks to come, yet there may. I think the Army will move about April sometime during that Month. I rec. a Tribune from you a while a go. I am very much obliged to you for it. Give my love to your x family. Write me again Soon, from your Affection Brother T C Cheney