Camp Adams Run March the 26 1863
deir wife I seat my self to d[r]op you
a few lines to let you now how
I am giting a long i am tolrabel well
I have the cold but I am abel for
duty I hop when this com to hand
it may find you an the children
all well thir is three of our mess
sick Mikel Alewine is heir at
the hospital tha say he has the
Brunchetis I seed him yesturday I think
he is a litel beter Robert Tucker
is at the hospital he has the messels
he is doing very well Perter Burton
is sick I think he will have to go
to the hospital I do not no what ailes
him he has a very bad cough thir
is a hep of bad colds here an bad
coughs Davis lef heir yesturday
he is gon to columbia captin
Miot went with him he is goin
to try to git a dishcharge turn over [turn the page]
[page 2]
Mary Peter Burton tole me Just
now not write hom that he
was sick he sed that his pepel
wold be unesey but I have don
writon to you alred in this leter that
he is sick Mary I have Just reseve your
kind leter this evening I was glad to
heir from you but sorow to heir that
the children was not well but I hop
tha will son git beter you sed
tha you had heird that tha had
put me on extry duty for staing over
my time at hom tha did put
me on gard once for it but I wish
tha wold give me the chance to go
hom a gain I will stan gard ten or
twelve times if tha will let me
go home agane an thinke no wais hard
of it W. N. Hall sed tel you to tel
Margret tha he reseved the leter that
she sent to him he has don riton
one an close it up he ont write non
now
[page 3]
Mary you sed that your farther
was goin to sel the coton I exspect
it wold be wel anof to sel it I
want to no if you have paid your
farther the money that I borrowed
from him when I started to camps if
you have not he can pay him self when
he seles the coton you sed you was
looking for Daniel hom I wish he
cood git hom you sed thir was sum
tolk of pese but I am a frade that
it will be good wille before it com
but I hop an trust to got that
it will not be long I hop that
Joifull day will son com
you sed that you had no plowing
don if you git iney thing planted
let it be sumthing to eate
I think the nabors all aught to
plant soumthing to eate an let
coton a lone them that has to
by tha will no how tha will git it
[page 4]
Mary you sed yow was goin
to sel the old sow if you cood
git a good prise for heir let
heir go if you can git a good
prise for heir an have a nother
sow a coming on you sed that
the naborhood was goin to have
the mail fetch to diamond three [the Diamond Hill neighborhood]
tims a week I will be glad if tha
will do it March the 27 we ar all
tolrabel this norning Peter is no beter
I have not heird from Mikel Alewine
an Robert Tucker this morning
Mary I want yow to write to me an
let me no all the news an if R. D. Tucker
has got hom I have not got time to write
to Davy Murdock this morning
I will have to close so nothing mor
at presant but I remain your
loving husban til deth Fenton Hall
to his loving wife an children
Mary Jane Hall
tel Davy not to think hard of me not writing
him tel them all to write to me my respects to all