East Tenn Granger County Beans
Station August 3 1862
My Dear wife
it is with grate plasure I take
this opper tunity of Riting you a
few lines to in form you that I
am well at this time hoping that
these few lines may find you all
well & doing well I much of intrest
to Rite at this time thare is nothing
new in camps now we are Still heare
a Spending what money we can git for
Somthing to eat we draw for 3 days
at a time & it Jest dose us 2 days by
tite work & half living this is one
of the damdest Swindeling Machines
that I ever Saw in my life I go
over to See my darling ever too
or three days but it allways
costs me a quarter tha doant
charge me but I doant want
to eat eny Bodys meat & bread as
hy as it is heare fur nothing tha
give me Rite Smart at that
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my littel girl thinks a durnd
Site more of me then I do of her
lis Ill Jest be durnd if thar
ant Some of the prety Stock out
heare of the Rite grit & I tell you
I wont be out it Rubd in by them
if we Stay heare much longer in
about 9 months from now thare
will be more littel Gorgians a
Squalling through this contry
then you can Shake a Stick at
but I doant in tend to be cald
pap so fare from home but thare
is a grate meny pitching in blind
lis I will leave the Subject with
you it ant worth more paper
then it is Rote on no how
I got aletter from Terresa.L.Whitney
& Francis.M. Self & Brother
Francis Sade She has bin
to See you & States that you
was well & that my baby favord her famley
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tha all think that I am mad
tha faild to Rite afew times &
I Rote to them if I had Rote eny
thing that was Rong to lay it
to my ignorance & Say no more
about it & make [??] by
not Riting no more the letters
has come prety neare every mail
I think that I will Rite to them
today I havent had aletter from
alabama fur Some time Sister
Sus Rote me a few lines while
She was at Lwancevill I will
Rite her a letter before long Rite
to me how you are doing & how
much you have got to eat &
how much you have got to pay
fur Some & how much you have
got paid fur & Rite all the
news good or bad tel me all
the Setelment news I Still
Keep fat the Soldiers life is
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a good life if it is well lived
but living of it is the devel I
think I live as well as enybody
thare is 2 or 3 dying every weak
out of the Regt & it may next
be mine & if I ever git in to a
fite I exspect to bid this world
good by fur I doant exspect to
live through one battel but I
intend to kill as many of them
as I can we was formed in line
to Shoot off our guns the other day
& Some of them trimeld so tha
could hardley Shoot & if tha had
bin in a battel & the balls flying
Round as thick as hail tha would
drop ther wax it did not friten
me abit I hit a tree about 1.50
yards & if I had bin in abattel
it would made a difrence but them
is the Sort that gits kild & I dont
field that it is entended So lite your pipe
& turn the other leaf
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To Margret My Deare
Sister it is with the gratest
plasure I Rite you a few lines
to inform you that I am fat
& the girles ses that I am prety good
looking I truley hope that thes few
lines may find you in the Same
fix onley not the fat yo Saide
you had a bo at alford Everrets
& had to leave him the girls never
calls me bo [1] & has to leave me to go
home fur I all ways go with them
but of all the contrys I will
give Tennessee the prase fore
ugley wimmin Smoky houses
& black water pails Rite Sone
So fare you well H. W. Robinson
To Elisabeth Susanah John
Mary Robinson & Margret
Francis Bridges
Jest S[t]ep over & take Supper if yo
pleas & pass a few