Nashville Tenn Dec the 20th /62
Dear wife
I take this oportunity of
wrighting you a few lines to
inform you that I am well and
I hope these few lines will find
you the same I received 3 letters
from you last wednesday and
was glad to hear from you
our regiment has moved to nash
ville the are camped 2 milds from
here I was over to the regiment
day before yesterday I saw John
Parker there he got to the regiment
2 weeks ago he expected to find me
there two brewbecker and Henry
Anspaw is there to I am going
Back to the regiment tomorrow
to Stay with it you may Direct
your letters to the regiment after this
the General opinion is at present
[written upside down across top of page]
Oh you tell the children that there
Paw loves them and would like to see them
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that peace soon will be declared
and if it is i want to be with
the regiment so that I will get
my discharge when it does this
Mchanick busines hant agoing to
amount to much you have herd
Smiths and Rockwells folks tell a
great deal about Preacher P[??] [damage]
not being with the regiment and
only Preaching but 2 or 3 times
I will tell you how it is I
herd our Colonel and Ajident
talking about him the other day
about a year ago he was taken
Sick and Sent here to the hospitle
when he got so as to be able to
be out the set him to nursing
in the hospitle well the liked him
so well that the made him post
Stuerd of all the hospitles in this
City which Numbers 25 or 30 and he
Spends all of his time going from
one hospitle to the other day and
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most of the night seeing to the wants
of the Soldiers and talking to them
chearing them up and getting Books
and papers for them to read and little
nourishments that he can get holt
of for them to eat the colonel
Said he had dun more good and
was doing more good and was the
best man in Nashville besids I
have herd a great many others say
the same thing since I have ben here
It is verry plesent wether here at
present with the exceptions of nights
the are pretty cold it is Just like
dry plesent spring wether in ohio
you stated in your last letter that
you felt most sick I was sorry to hear
that you must be careful and not over do
your Self you said you was going
to move the next day i think you
had better waited til you felt better
you wanted to no of me what you
had better do about the hogs I hardly
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tell Sarah Elen that I hant got any room
to right to her in this letter I will right to
her in the next
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what to tell you but i think
if the pigs are pretty good now
you had better not kill the old sow
it wont pay to turn hogs that
are fated out and put up a lean
one if the pigs are pretty well
fatted kill them all but one or
two and fat them til towards
spring and let the old sow [????] [damage]
and have pigs this spring it
wont cost any more to keep hur over
than it will one of the pigs at
least that is my opinion you must
use your one Judgement partly about
the matter I am glad that mother will
Soon be with you it wont be so lonesome
for you about the recording of that
deed you nedent be in a hurry about it
pay the taxes if you have money enough
I will send you some money as soon
as I draw some I hant drawed a sent
since the first that i drawed
I get letters from fathers folks evry week
or to the was all well the las that i herd
I will have to stop for this time So good by
right soon from your affectionate husband
Wm Culbertson to Julina Culbertson