Mr. Hartwell Tuttle
No. 1086 Washington St. No. 56 Myrtle
Boston, Mass.
Direct in care of Lieut
Capt Richard H. Weld.
we have just chosen him ceptan
Camp Stephenson, Newbern,N.C.
January 15th 1863
Dear Brother,
I received your very welcome letter this morning. also one from Henry with the good news that the folks were all well. I have written you one and sent to Hancock which you probably have not got, or had not when you wrote. And so you have gone to the city to live. how do you like where you are now? you have enough to do I presume where there are so many boarders. Boston is getting full of Hancock folks I should think. Well they had better go ther than to enlist. Henry wrote that Harlan Knight was killed at Fredericksburg & Edwin Ware was wounded, it is pretty careless going into battle worse than running a circular saw, I have been in three battles since I wrote
The Battle of Kinston, December 14, 1862
you last, one at Kinston, one at Whitehall and one near Goldsboro, although our reg’t did no firing except at Whitehall At Kinston we had a smart battle it lasted 7 hours, our regiment was in a reserve brigade that was engaged and consequently the shot and shell flew around us and over us at a manners that we thought was rather careless but fortunately none of the 44th were killed. the cannonballs cut off trees larger than my body and pitched them round worse than a whirlwind and the bullets cut the trees and brush all to pieces. and the killed and wounded laid around presenting a horrid picture to gaze upon. At Whitehall we were in the fight, as we marched in to the field a cannon shot struck and killed two men in Co. A After we got into our position we lost in killed and wounded above 20 men one from
our company was killed. At Everets near Goldsboro we were not exposed at all, as the battle was mostly fought with artillery we were gone ten days and carried our knapsacks and it made pretty hard work for us, the last day we marched about 30 miles, my health is very good, and I am getting fat as a pig. I hope you will enjoy good health and get a good place and like your business. If you see the girls at 56 give my respects to them and also Mr Beaumont & Mrs. Unwin also to Mr. Chace tell him I should like to have come across him in Boston & will call on him if I ever get a chance to come back. tell him soldiering is not quite like working for Mr. Blood and tell him to give my respects to Mrs. Cehose. Do you ever see Freman Eaten he works for Ballon & Hibbard No. 21 I think, Faneul Square near the market. he drives their team & has got a good place
I think Freman is a pretty steady boy and will do well. I have not received your papers yet they do not give them out as soon as they do letters and half the time we do not get them at all. I have had everso many sent but have got but two yet. you must write often as a letter does me a great deal of good, I presume there are a good many mistakes in this letter as there is a good deal going on in the barracks and a man must have pretty steady nerves or he will make some blunders. Capt Reynolds has resigned on account of ill health and gone home and 4 more of our men have got discharged today and are going home. one man has fits and three o them have ruptures, we choose officers again tonight Lieut Weld will probably be captan, I am much obliged to you for those stamps I have received some in almost every letter. I am much obliged to you for the interest you have in my welfare, and for your kind advice & hope your prayers will be answered. I must close my letter as it is getting towards time to turn in, I shall probably send this letter by one of the discharged soldiers Mr Guy Boyce he may call on you if he has time if he does not he will put it in the office he will leave before the mail goes probably Give my respects to all enquiring friends and accept these lines from your brother,
![[The Battle of Kinston]](kinston.gif)
