March the 22,1862

Dear friend:

As john was writing I thought I would write a few lines and put in his letter. I am well at this time and hope when these few line come to...family enjoying the same blessings. Well Sol we have been a soldering old fashioned for the 1st 2 weeks. We have been on the march for the last 2 weeks and are now in 2 mile and a half of Fort Craig  the first plase we started for Sentersville we got one mile on the other side of ... and put up for the night and we had not ben stayed long when the word came back that sentersville and Manassas was... and didn't belive it at first but the next day we was bound to believe it for I saw men that ben there we staid there for 4 days and then we was ordered back to Alexander to go on a fleet  we marched back there in the rain and ard as it could pore down all day and night  we stayd there that night in about 2 miles of Alexander and until noon the next day when we was ordered back to the old camp at Fort Craig where we staid  2 days and nights   then we was order out... and now we are laying about 3 miles west of Alexander wateing for the boats  I think it is a shore thing this time there is a lot to troops gone and a going all the time  well Sol you must do the best you can and write to us as often as you can  I expect that we will have a bad chance to writ  I am keen for the trip for I am tired of staying in one county so long  me and John is a bunking together  we got tired and mad the other night and fell out and lay by the side of the road  Sol give my best wishes to all the famly and take the same yourself

Albert B Kelley to Solomon Dean