1862 February 23 from F. Rupert (Camp Price near Fort Scott) to C.W. Rupert Dear Mother re: got letter yesterday dated the 12th from her. Was in Washington on Saturday and if he knew that Mr. McGiny? was in Georgetown he would have gone to see him as Georgetown is connected to Washington just like Scottown is to Bloomsburg. Was going to send home $30 but thought that he might get a furlough but Colonel Price told him that no use of trying as General Hooker had issued an order that no paroled prisoner was to have a furlough but the colonel has given some of the boys furloughs that were taken at the same place as he was but they were married men. He will go to Elixandria [Alexandria, Va.] tomorrow to send the $30. He sends the money for her to use not to save for him. Lloyd can’t send money home because he can’t get to Alexandria. Francis tells Mother to tell Father that he mustn’t think hard of Francis because he doesn’t write to Father because when Francis writes to her he writes to the whole family. He supposes that he will be exchanged soon. He would like to be out at the front doing picket duty. A dispatch came to the colonel to fetch his regiment to Washington to do provost duty but the colonel said no as his regiment was out on the front all winter doing picket duty and if he brought them in now then in spring they would make them go out on the front again. The colonel said that he would stay out until spring and then he would have a good place next summer. Best respect to father and the girls. What is the reason that Lucy doesn’t write anymore? [yellow envelope, stamp removed, cancellation mark limited to D.C. 62 addressed to Miss Lucy Rupert Bloomsburg Columbia County Pa., right edge cut] (Fort Scott, Kansas was Union Army’s largest and strongest Union point south of Fort Leavenworth. It was a Quartermaster Supply Depot and a goal for capture by Confederate General [Sterling] Price (1809-1867). It had Provost guards responsible for Confederate prisoners and a hospital.)