Letter from Linus Patrick to Bob Moore

Bob Moore

Jo & Jack both need a pair of boots & want you to make them for them these corn field gaiters the government furnishes are poor things for winter - make our boots & let the people at home wait & when the pay master comes around we will load you down with green backs - a heavy sole is best for army use - I can write nothing more for I am in a great hurry to get this in before the mail goes out

Yours & C
Linus Patrick

Bob if you get my boots made in time you must make the[m] plent[y] large & a very heavy sole with light tops Also Linuses the same "very large" please send those other things that Jack and I sent for. Tell those people that know so much about our things coming through to look to their own business. We are all firstrate - We have about 1 inch of snow on the ground & those gaiters are awful cold to the feel - we have gone into new quarters right in the centre of a 1,000 acre block where the Rebs could not find us in a month we have a Brush fence round us for rifle pits so they could not take us by surprise if they were to come across us in haste

Joseph Moore