Camp Neare Vicksburge Miss
Febuary 11
1863
My Dearley belovd
wife it is with the gratest of plasure
that I Seat my Self to day to Rite
you afew lines to let you no that
I field better to day then I have for
better then two weakes past but
I am very weak I have wated til
this late in the weak before I
would Rite in hopes every day
that I would git a letter from you
but have faild to do so yet the
mail hant came in to day but
will be in a few minuts when
you mail your letters on friday tha
git heare by the next friday or by
monday eny how & it is wensday now
& no letter yet I hope that this letter
will come Safe to hand & find you
all well & doing well & when you
git this letter let me no how long
it was coming & then I will no
what day to Rite on I got a letter
from you that was maild Dec 26
& Sent to manchester tennessee &
you sade in the letter that
you would Send Some money to me
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in it or you Jest Sed I will send
you some money in this letter
but doant State how much but
one thing sirtins thare was non in
it & I hope that you never put eny
in it I also at the Same time
got one from E..L.. Bridges in ansur
to the letter that I Rote mother the
first of January Mother is dead she
dide the 15 of November & Malinda
had left thare before Mother dide
She is living with one Mr Coin
if you wish to Rite to her Derect
your letters Picks Hill P O Calhoon
if you have ever heard of her deth you
you keept it very Still from me E P
Stated that She talk about me
& wanted to See me Johnson is dead
he dide Sept 2
G H..R Bridges is at Mobiel he was
thare when I came through he ways
1-95 lbs I have fell away 26 lbs cence
I came through Mobiel I am so weak
that I can hardley walk but I field
better to day then I have fur sevrel
dayes I have bin taken quinine
a teespoon full at a dose & taken
it over 2 hours & I could lye & heare
it thunder or heare enything I please
I have kild my Self a marching & carring
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So much in my napsack I think
that I will Sell my ax fur I may
carry it til I kil my Self & then Som
body els will git it So I have come
to the conclushion that if I git shet
of a heep of Stuff that I am carring
with the exspctation of fetching hom
that is but very litel proffit & carrey
less & git home my Self that I will
be better off in the long Run I
can make a ax & as fur hickrey nuts
& Such Stuff I think is unwise to
be luging Such truck I want you to Rite
evry friday & then I will git one a
weak I Stopt Riting Jest now to Shoot
at a coon & I exspect that tha will
put me under gard fur it if I had
a got the coon I would not a card
the yankeys is all heare with ther
gun boats & tranceports but tha
Stay on one Side of the River
& we Stay on the other & I hope that
we will Stay So Some Say that we
will go back to tennessee & Some
Say we will go to north carolina &
if I cant git to come home I had
Ruther go to North carolina fur
good health but tennessee Suts
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very well I can git bacon
& bisket thare to eat & that agrees
with me very well I could eat
a half dosin good Shortend bisket
& 18 fride eggs & 3 cups of coffey
& more then that I would give
2 dollars & 50 cents fur Jest Such
a bate I want to git a full bate
eggs & butter & bisket & it will cost
me somthing fur eggs is worth
1.50 cents per dos butter 50 cents per
pound & flower is 50 cents per
pound or 40 dollars per hundred &
black peper 4 dollars per pound &
coffey I doant no how hye but 2
cups will cost 50 & 6 biskts 75 & half pound
buter 75 & 2 dozen eggs 3 dollars & then
50 cents fur cooking of it So my bate
will cost 5 dollars & 50 cents So no
more but Remains your true & loving
husband until deth Rite as often as
you can & let me no all the news
[I?] look fur a letter every weak tell the child
to be good children that it may be that
I will git home some time H. W. Robinson
To Elisabeth Margret & all the
Children god bless you all
good by