Aug the 19 Ad 1862 Wm R Jones

Charlston Tenn Mrs M F Jones
Dear wife i seat my silf to answer your
Chind amd effect leter whitch ireseaved
this morning i was hapy to her from
you to her that you was well but i
am sary to her that my loving babe
was sick i could not ceap from Sheden
tear when i herd it for it seams like
you and the babe is all in this earth
i cear mutch for iam am sar to her that
he is sow pale and looks sow bad but
ihope that he will get well i hav got
the faith to bleaves that i will go home
once moore to live with you again i feel
like some one alone by his self tho i
hope that God will be with mee throo
all of my under takens and ceap mee from
all harm ithink of him bowth night
and day ifeel like some times like
i ceard for nothing wher iam nor whear
i go ipray for help from god every
day in my life for you and the babe
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O my companion if i was with you i could
tell you moore in one houre than i could
wright in aday i hav seen a heap that is two
tedious to mension that would bee inter
ting to you if i could get to bee with
you to tell you the talk her is now
that seven of our Companeys of this
redgiment is orderd to go back to Chattanooga
to guard the town but some think
that tha want us to cross the Tennessee River
tow wards the enemy the talk is that
bewels army is all most surrounded tha
air coming to our side and given up to fight
for us my love i now that you will take
the best cear of our babe but i wish
that i could a hav abin ther to a hope
wate on him when he was sick i dremp
about him the other night i saw him
as plane as iever did in my life i felt
like he was sick when iwake tell pap
and mother pet and haty all hody for
me and lizey two tell liz that A T
is well and he looks beter than he did
when he left Wm R Jones To M F Jones
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J B Sheldon ses that he wants your pap to
go to turners and get his Clothes if he hant got
them he ses that he promis to go after thim when
he left thar send me a ball of sewing thrad
ilost mine at marian as i com and
ihav wrote one to pap and one to Elizebth Gilpin
one leter ifeel lik my friends was prain for mee
ihope that tha air i try to shune all eavel
that i can her is a grate place fore to bee
led astray for tha is all sorts of people her
in this redgament tha is some that will doo any
thing in gods world but i think that i never
will for get to pray while ilive if can pray at tall
direct your leters thus
To Mr Wm R Jones To Mr Wm R Jones
Charlston Po Tenn Charlston tnn
Fortifurst Redgement in the cear of Capt L T Hudg[ings]
of Ala volenteers fortifurst Redgment of Ala volunteers