June the 3 Ad 1863
Jack Miss dear wife it tis thriew
the cind murses of God that i am
spaird once more to drop you a few lines
to informe you that i am well at
presant i hope thise few lines will
reach you an jimey safe an find you
all well dear wife i havant aney
newse of importance to communicate
to you at presant onley that i hav seen
a heap sence i left home this is the
Eleventh day sence wee started from
manchester i will give you a litle
sketch of our travals wee come from
Manchester to Tulahoma from thare to
Chattanooga then to Dalton to Ga to
[?????] to West Point to Mong[??] [1]
[??] Mobile Ala to Maredion Mis[?]
then to jackson Miss that is wher
wee are at this time the yankes is
clost her sow the report ses tha
are looking fore a big fight between
her an victsburg jinerl jonsun has [2]
got sixty thousan the report ses that
old jinerl Grant is faling back a crose
the Mississippi River i hope it tis sow
for i dont want to fight a tall turn
over
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Fracis the Boys is bowth well
an all the Conection exsept William
Maddox he has got the flux but
he is beter this eavening francis
the yanks has bin her an burnt
up ouer house that had Commoseres
in thim an knockad knocked the
heds out of a number of Molases
barels the Molases is a lien on the
ground tha burnt up a heap of houses
a bridge burnt acrose purl River an
the Ralerode two for a bout three
Miles faney i havant aney thing
elce to write at presance sow i will
quit for this time you must
excuse mee for this short let[er?] [3]
will try to do beter [???????]
time george Grifen ant very [?????]
when i was at west point Wm P wrote when
wee was at Mobile when you write
direct your leters to Jackson Miss 41st
Redgt Ala vol Helms Brigade Brackenrisde
Devision then it twill foler us whar
ever wee go give my love to all the
famley may god bless you an bee wi
with you while i am absence from you
good by my loving wife an babe an
friends Wm R Jones to M F Jones
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June the 4
My Dear Companion as i didant get
to send my leter off last eavning
i will send you a few more lines
to let you now that i & the Boys
are all well this time dear wife
if i could see you i could tell you
more in one day than i can write
in a week faney wee get plenty
to eat such as crackers corne bred
an bacon wee get very good spring
water to use tho wee got very bad
water an our way her some times
wee wood hafto get it out of frog
ponds the water looked red an tasted
as bad as it looked if you will go
[??] below the old sacefress feld [4]
[????] lake an take a drink
[??] you may now a litle a
bout some of the water her it
tis a low flat Country but o that
afful report that i her in the direc
directition of victsburg the canons
coments Roering last knight i
hav hurd thim all the morning
like distant thunder it tis
affful to her or think a bout
wee are a waten for orders to
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go aney wher tha order us to go
tha are severl Brigades her at this
time Brackenridges devision is her i
reckon tha are a heap of canons her
i seene one Canon that wade the
rise of thirteen thousan it twas
tenn inches acrose the holler of the
musel it twood tak a cag of powder
to lode it dear companion i havant
hurd from nun of my folks sence
i left manchester i wood bee glad
to her from any of my folks i rather
her from you an james than aney
to body in this world i fer that
it twill bee a long time before
i get to see you my love [??]
[??] never meat in [?????????] [5]
i hope wee will meat [?????]
haven wher wee will nuver part
aney more wher wee can bee in peas
an h happiness with our maker faney
give my love to pap an mother an the
girls tell thim that i think of
thim often times an i bleave tha
do mee may god bless you all in this
world an when don with you he will
tak you in the bosum of his love
good by for this time Wm R Jones