Chattanooga ten nesee June the 30 1863
Dear wife I seat my self to drop you a fiew lines
which leavs me well hoping when thes
lines reches you they will find you well
I recieved a letter from you that was dated the
25 of June and was truly glad hear from you and
to hear that you was getting better
I told Middleton to sel our Cotton if it
ever got to fifteen cents but now it has got
to I want him to wate a while til it
gits to more if he thinks it best
I supose that we have ganed a grate victory
at Richmond again thar is more talk of
than any thing els i hope that it
will cum and that soon I was on gard
last nite and I cannot rite good we have got
eight prisners hear now to gard
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we have bin all over east tennesea and I Can
tel you that it is the purtiest land that
I ever saw and the best from the
mountan to Knoxvill is Just as leval as the
nearly and the meadows and the Corn and wheat
is fine I have travaild 600 miles since I left
home and I have bin able to answer to my
name every time it has bin yet thar is
two hundard and forty of our rigtment
sick now but it is mostly measles and
mumps tel rebeckor that she mu[s]t save
me sum appels to make me a dumpling
when I get to cum home if I ever do
Carolin I sent my qilt and one par of
pants back to Jefferson and as soon as you
get this you git Middleton to go and get
them they ar backed to him