Vixburg Miss Jan 6 1863

My Most Dearley beloved Wife
I take the oppertunety of Riting you
afew lines to let you no that I am
in common helth I taken the
Dyhoree the nite after I Rote to you
& amondy morning before day I took
a thowing up & I was worket both ways
til I had nothing but water in me
but I field Some better to day
I truley hope that these lines may
find you all well & doing well
I Recived your kind letter yesterday
& was hapy to heare from you &
to See Some of your hand rite I
could not Read it very well but
by looking over it Several times you
have Spoke in severl letters that
you had a notion of moving too I
would like to no whare you intend
moving to not that I am eny way
interrested in the move but it
mite be that I would git Some
chance of coming to See you & if
I doant no whare you are I wont no whare
to come to I thought you was in the
very place whare the nabors is thick
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Setteld & good nabors but let
me no whare you are going too
& then I will tell you what I have
got to Say about it I would like
to be thare & look Round alittel I
think I could tell alittel more about
the move you are handy to good
nabors & handy to good water & handy
to the mill & whare you can git more
work to do then you can do if you
can git cotton you can Set Rite thare
in the house & Suport your Self
& the children at the price cloth
Sells at thare I have Saw letters from
Jest above thare whare tha mad
plain cloth & took it to Lawernce
vill & got from 75 to a dollar ayard
for plain cloth & you Shorley can
Spin & weave a quarter of a yard a day
if you can you can make your 25
but you are thare you have to act
as man wife & Sirvent Do as you
think best but I think whare you
are if Polk dos as he Said he would
do you can git along the best thare
if you git off 3 or 4 miles from the
Mill & you have to pay 50 cents for
every turn you have took to Mill
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you will Soon find out that
you wont git along So well
if you are thinking of moving up
about the hog mountain I will bitrley
object to the move if thare is whare
you are going you need not Rite to
me eny more about it fur up thare
about old abe waldrups I doant want
you to go if I live & if I dye I ame
Shore I doant want you to go I doant
want my children to be Raised in no
Such a place So I will leave it with
you the fite has ended heare at this place
fore a while I was in the pit when I Rote
the other letter afriday the news come
that the yankeys was all gon &
it is So we came to camps a Saturday
& is atalk of our brigade falling back
4 miles the Rode we com the other
Side of town to gard abridge it
maut be but afew days til tha will
be back with a Reenforcement & make
us fite like the devel tha can Run
in on there old gun boats in ashort
time thare was a big fite at Murfey
Burrow a crismus day & our
genrel Raines [1] that we bin under
So long got kild I could not keep
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from sheding tears when I herd
of it he was a nice man & a grate
comander he was not too big to
talk to aprivet him & me has had
Some long chats to gether I Saw
James Delay & Van yesterday tha are
campt in a hundred yards of us tha
was well Jo hammons is at the
hospitel with the belley ack he
eat too much Shuggar we all eat
Shugar as we come on we would
Stop at a depot & if a Shugar barrel
hadent the head out we would
Soon have it out & eat it up when
you git this letter Rite to hammonds
& let them no whare I am & how I
am & Send me word how tha are if you
no tel Mrs Kirkus that W. P. is
not heare I got the letter I havent
heard from him cence I left him
but I think he will come by hom
when he Starts to come heare fur
his time ant limited I want to no
if old man Jackson took my loom
timber if he has W P will pay me
for it Rite Soon & let me no the dates
you git both of thes letters you Say you
hant had but one letter from me I have
Rote more then that & put in Kirkus So I
must close kiss the children for me H. W.
Robinson to Elisabeth Margret & the Children