Feb the 18th Ad 1863
State of Tenn Coffee Co affectionet wife it tis thriew the
murses of that all wise God that
i am spared to droip you a few more
lines in Remembernce of your cindness
to wards mee an to answer your cind
& affecttionet leter witch i reseaved
on yesterday i was proud to her from
you & your sweet litle man that
you was well an i was proud to her
that all the Conection was well i
wish that i could hav bin up in Fay
Fayette with you to hav the plesure
of your Coumpaney & to a seen my conection
an Friends tha all seem very neer to
mee I wish i could hav seen Sister Elizabeth
an hur Children i wood a bin glad to
a seen Jimey & Jiney & Rosco a playing i now
it twas interresting to you i wish i
could see budy fight for my degeratype [1]
an see him him playing with it i
dont want you to let him spoild
it if you can help it turn over
on the other side
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My Dear Companion i promist to
write the trooth when i node it I will
say to you that i ant in very good
heth i ant bin very bad of i hav
just bin pewney all this winter
i am very poore i woodent way moore
than One huntred an twenty five or
thirty lbs i keep up an a bout all
the time an dew a wright smart of
dewty my offisers is very good to mee
as fur as it tis in thar power Francis
i wrote a leter an sent by the hands
of Robert Cooper i stated in it that i
had now money to send to you but
i Colected some an fixt it up an sent
it by Mr Cooper i sent Thirty Dollars
by Mr Robert Cooper & ten Dollars by
Capt Hudgens an a leter by the Capt
an one by Wm S Norris i want you
to send mee words if get thim all or
not i got one leter from R A J Parker
sence you went to Fayette i was
glad to her from thim your leter
was wrote Feb the 5 Good by &c
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Mary F i dont her of now late
fighten the newse is tollerble still
at this about fighten but that ant
now sine the talk is her is that this
Brigade is a going to bee Mounted on
horseback two men to a horse sow
half of thim can go out on crumish at
a time it tis in the papers sow sed
& tha is some talk of swapen our
Redgiment for a Ky Redgt at vixburg
or at mobile i wish it may be sow
i dont bleave hardley any thing i
her in camps i wood bee mity glad to
get out of Tenn back to Ala i wish
wee was at mobile now wee get plenty
to eat an good water to drink i fere
that wee will hafto go to Ky this
Spring i dont want to go thar at tall
wee hav had a power of rane her the
waters is powerful fool her it tis mity
mudy an bad wether her it tis mity
disagreable to stand but wee cant
help it the helth of the Redgt is not
very good at this time A B C D
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Francis John is or was at Chattanooga the
last time i hurd from him he was beter
thin Wm is pewney mat is pewney Roof is well
Ciney & Riley it at the Hospitle Faney i
dident exspect you could get any body to take
our my plase but i dident now i wish you
could i drother giv all i hav in this world
than to stay her an bee exsposed like
i am an i now you had two if you can
get any body send thim as quick as you
can if you dont get now body i cant blame
you for it i want you to send mee some
peper an some sowing thriead the first
chance you get & a corse par of socks i can
make out some time yet tell pap & Mother
an the girls that i want to see thim very
bad i want thim to remember mee
Wm wood write but his han trimels two bad
he thinks he is a taken the janders he got a leter
from his pap wrote Feb the 6 i was glad to her from
thim tha rote to now a bout T A H he is ded J
Hewet is Ded write soon an often when this
you see remember mee tho many milds a part wee may bee
Wm R Jones To Mary Francis Joness Love