State of Tenn Coffee [Co?] March 17 / 63 [1]
Manchester Po Wm R Jones [to?] Mrs Mary F Jones
My Dear & affectionet [wife?] [it?] tis once
more that i hav the [???] privelidge [answer?]
your cind leters i reseaved on the 15 inst i was
happy to her from you & to her that you was
well but was sary to her that your arm
was sow bad i hope it twill bee well by
the time you gets this leter i am glad that
Jimmia arm is well my arm ant well yet
but it tis a heap beter i could use it [??] the
time Francis i am in beter helth than i hav
bin this hole winter before i am [????]
[????] william is well Mat is pewny Roof
is well John is well he has com back to the
Redgt Francis you see that you wanted mee to [?]
how i thout John was when he left the Redgt
i thought he was very bad off but not dangerous
all tho i was uneasey a bout him he come back
on the 14 inst with Lieut White & Wm Smith
Francis you aught to a seen mee when Smith
opened his budget an i never got nary leter i got
my socks i was sow poore i couldent hardley keep
from sheden tears i [??] like one a [?] to see
the wrest with leters but O [?] my [?????]
Wm handed mee a pasel [???????]
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Francis i [?????] a birdlooks when [let?]
out of the [?] cage I never was as glad to get a leter
in all of my life before for i hadent got [nary?]
one in a long time the last one that i got was
wrote Feb the [5?] you was in fayette at that time
i got one from sister Elizabeth [???] 14 inst then i got
one the [?] inst inst from you that you sent by male
wrote Febyary the 23 i am glad [that?] you hav got
some oats faney i want you to hav Lucian ploud [2]
some this spring if you can an [???] [???] as [????]
you can Francis i havent mutch [???] newse to
to write the wether is [very?] plesant at this time i fer
tha will fight clos her if [the weather?] keeps good sow
the wagons can [??] the Kentuckyans [??] this Brigade
is ordered to Ky by the way of knoxville i [???]
now wether it tis sow or not you may direct your
leters to [chatanooga?] Tenn the Capt come as
far as Atlanta Ga then turn back home
after moore men i reckon faney i was put on
duble dewty for helpen tote a box of things to
the Regt for Lieutenant White it twas the first
time i was ever cros i will haf to quit for the
presant for it tis [???] time give my love &
best Respects to all the famley John Hewit died [3]
at Murfreeboro an his money was sent her by
the docter [???] Wm R Jones to Mary F Jones