Ray county Tenn Oct 24 the 1862 [1]
Dear Sister
I seat my
Self to drop you afew lines in answer to
your kind letter Which I rec some dayes
ago and read the contents withe Eagerness
to See if you all was well and that give me
great sadisfactoon and I was sorry to hear
of the Bad Luck of my Brothers that is in
virginia I would Like to see them and
here them tell all about the fight out
there and I am comeing home as soon as
they come home you must let me know
When they come home for I wos talking
with the col yesterday and he toled me I
could come When they come home sister
I hov nothing Strange to communote to
you At this time more than this leaves
me Well and Well sadisfied we are Stopet
here for the purpus of recruteing our Stock
for the retrate of Ky Liked to hav killed [2]
them we rode nite and day and we did
not feede hardly and and of coars
they red[?]ad But they are mending
now I dont know whear we will go from
here rite soon nothing more your Brother
J. P. Rogers
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dear father and mother I am
Well at this time and I hope you
are all in the same health Father
I rec that coat you sent me By
Bengamin Lewis and I was glad
to get it for it is cool here I can rite
my name in the frost of a morning on
my Bead Blanket the talk is we
will go in the Dirction of Chattanoogo
from here I dont know it may Just
Be camp news there has a part of Lees
company has got in at Last and there
will Be apart of Ham[?]acks this
evening my horse stands it
Tolerable Well But his Back is not
Well But improving slowely the health
of the company is good there is not
more than 7 or 8 sick in the company
I will now give you my Weight I
way 1.65 I hav gained 10 lbs since I left
I hav no more time and I close
By asking you to rite to me
nothing more I remain your son
J. P. Rogers