London Hights Nov 13^th 1862

Dear Wife

I received a letter from you last night dated Nov 5^th was glad to hear from you that you ware all well it found me well and in good spirits; I am well and have been since I last wrote to you it has been eleven days since I last wrote to you since that time I have been over a good deal of ground hither and thither over mountain top and through vally and now I find myself in the east side of London Hights on the side of the mountain the next day after I wrote to you we received marching orders we left camp Monday about noon marched that afternoon lay out on the ground that night started the next forenoon and at night we found ourselves eight or ten miles from whare we left Monday redy to bunk on the ground again here we stayed three days which brought us to the 76^th of Nov when we had a fine snow storme the snow fell about six inches deep it snowed all day and most of the night at this time we was in Jeferson County we marched that afternoon in the snow storm about four miles to a new camp but was sent out on picket again that night as soon as we got to camp so we had to plough our way through the snow up into the mountain and stayed in the woods and slept in the snow all night the next day we was called in and marched about ten miles to the place whare we now are here we are building log huts to live in this winter but I have not the least idea that we shall ocupy them ourselvs for I think before they are done we shall march to some other place I got a letter from lib last night she wrote that her health was about the same as when she was in Moodus; also that she received a letter from Horace last week saying that he was married to that [M?] Woods I can get enough to write about but cannot get time to write for they keep a fellow busy about something the most of the time it is either to worke on log huts or out on picket or standing guard around the camp all of the time   Lucinda about those pigs you may kill and salt boath of them I think that you will do better by so doing than to sell one of them fresh the pork salted will be worth 12 ½ cts per pound, you must have the pork barrell well [?] so as not lose the pork after it is salted, it was time for you to draw your money from the state the first of November I suppose you could not get it only for two months as it would not be three from the time I enlisted untill the 9^th of Nov so if you draw for only two months it will be twenty dollars instead of thirty this time you understand I suppose whare you are to get it that is at the bank of new England you can get some your neighbors to see to it for you Mr Fowler or Mr Worthington then you will have the money to pay up your bills round Moodus keep squared up as well as you can, I suppose the children are all right as you said nothing about anyone but Frank he was eating an apple  I did not see anything of a line from Georgia this time so I shall look for it next  I should like to see all of you but cannot at presant so accept my love all of you and hope for the best your affectionate Husband A.C. Smith

Direct the same as you always have before

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