November 8th 1862
Camp nere Lenoier Station East Tenness
Kind wife seat my Self this morning
to drop you a few lines to let you
know that i am well at presant
& I hope these few lines may come
safe to hand an find you all injoying
the same like blesing I hant eney thing
of inrust to rite to you all the
rest of the boyes is tolebler well
but Frank & Rus Rus is complai
ning Frank is rite porley I am a fra
de he is taking the fever he has
bin complaining a bout a weake he
hasent eat eneything hardley in to or
three days so i will tell you a lit
tle a bout y my trip in Kan tucky
we went in to kentucky the Eighten
e Of Septembur an came out the twenty
second of October I was thirty
five days in Kentucky we Marched
one hundred an 80 milds from the
[page 2]
from the Combling Gap we left [1]
six of our men in kentucky besides
three others the yankeys got an payrold
an has come to the campana R. P. Bond
G. P. Bray Jasper Mandley them three
has returned R P Bond is with us
yet Bray an Mandley left the 26 of
last month they left with out leafe
we ar a bout twenty
miles from Knoxville on the railrode leading
to Dalton we have bin at this camp eigh[t]
days an I dont know how long we
will stay they say they are agoing
to pay us of[f] this weak I have
bin a wating to see whether they
was wold pay us of[f] or not
they hant pay us yet but think
that they will in a few days it
is very cold a cloud an has bin
cloudy three days it snoade a litle
yestur day but not anufe to lay
it look like it mite snow or rain
[page 3]
I want you to do the
bes you can for i dont know
when i will get to come home
you to jest manage to the best
advantag if you diden make
a nufe of corn to doo you
get you pap to by a nuf to
do you to f[???] rite of an i wold
like to [????] bes for fere it will
be hard to get aftre a while
it has bin so long sense i have
rote that i dont know hardley
what to rite i want
to see you an the children the worse
i wanted to see thing in my
lif but i dont know wheter i will
ever get to see you all a gain
or not but hope an trust that
that we will meat a gain in [???] [2]
world there is no chance as i see
to get of[f] all the chance is to
[page 4]
hiere out an that is a bad one

I want you to ge[t] your
pap to by a Colt if you think
you can winter it you can get [??]
[???] [??] think that you beter
[???] the things to [???]if you
[????] you cant stay [????] with
[????] if your pap is[??]ing for you
to move there i dont [???]t to
tel you to do i want you to rite
[?????]r every chance you have i thi
nk that i will rite oftener than i ever
have times is harde here
[?????] your pap and Mother tha i hant
then so i must come to
[????] I remain yours Husband
until death D W Phillips to Sarah L. Phillips
[????] you to kiss my sweet
litle childre for me[???] them of
th[??] he is meney Mils a way
D W Phillips Sarah L Phillips