1863
Jan the 20 Ad 1862
Tulahoma Tenn Dear Wife it tis with pleasure that i seat my self
self to drop you a few lines to let
you now that i am well at this
time i hope these few lines will
find you & jimey in joying the same
like blessing Faney i hant mutch
of importence to write at presance
i dont her now newse her that will
do to delyapon wee are Camped in
the modest plase i ever did before [1]
wee hav had a heap of rane & a big
snow it tis the disagreeable plase
i ever saw i wish you could hav
[b?]in her this morning to take [brex?] [2]
brexfast with mee wee made sody
bisuit an fride pork boiled agues [3]
an buter you ought to a seene mee
eat wee give 4 dollers a pound for sody
75 cts a dose for agues $100 a pound for [4]
buter it twas mity high but good
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My Dear Wife i wish i was at home
i wood try some way to get to stay a
while i wood try to get some one in my
plase a while if i could if you was wiling
i wood giv your land to some one to take
my plase I wish you wood try a see if you
can get any body i will give the land and all
of [??] [??] if you cant get now body for [5]
the fool time higher for twelve months or
six months I will give fifteen dollars pur
months or i will give the land an tenn
Dollars pur month for the hole time I wish
you to try an see what you can do for mee
try mulanaxes boys maby the old man
or one of the boys will come any thing
that you do or give to get mee home so [?] [6]
bee write with mee sow it tis one [?]
I nuver in tend to desert as long as i can
ceep from it i drother bee at home than
to hav all i posess in this world i
wood give all i hav in this world to
bee clear of this world wore it tis the
in [farest?] thing in this world i think
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Faney I want you to see you an James
jest as bad as any body can want to see
another My Dear babe could jest begin to
crall when i left home an now he can crall
walk you dont no how bad i wanted
to see him when i herd that hee could
walk Faney i hav dreemed of you an jimey
for three last knight i thought [??] [??]ly [7]
was the lovingest thing that i ever saw
tell Nate Deele that i had all reasens
to bleeve that my boy is the Pretest
Baby in the county tell him that i am
glad that he thinks sow the worst
i hate i cant bee with him & you at home
the Big offesers has Detaled Sist six men
to go back thar after the Conscripts an
[???] for rcutes sow i herd i don’t now
wether it tis sow or not if any body
gose back it twill officers the privettes
wont get to go a tall i dont bleave soon
i was talken to the Capt about furlows
he sed he dident thank tha wood bee any
chance Capt is willing for all of us to go home
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my love i hant hurd from you sin[ce?]
Chrismas I want to her mity bad it tis
a heap of satesfaction to reade a leter from
you Mat ses he think hard of his folks
for not wrighten to him him & Seelton
Ciney an Savedge is a complanen but is up
an a bout Mat herd that aunt mary had
the tifored fever but she was beter the
last time he herd from hur i got a leter
of [??] [??] J I Jones tha all was better [8]
well i cant get no invelopes nor nothing
to answer thar leters send thim word
that i will writen to thim as soon as
i can Francis give my love an best
respects to pap an mother an the girls
i want to see thim mity bad may god
bee with you all tell pap to try & help
you to get some body in my plase if
he please an i will do all i can for
him Roof C[l]ements sends his love to you
all i want to bee back thar to her [?]
T G Norris preech one moore time while [?]
live tell him i want him to think of
mee while he is in the stand an in [?]
plases may God bless us all is my [pra?]
Direct your leters to Tulahoma Tenn
Good by for this time good Francis &
Jimey & all of the wrest
Wm R Jones To Mary F Jones &c