Tiners ville tennesee
July the 31 1862 Dear wife
I take my pen in hand to
to drop you a fiew lines to
let you no that I am well
hoping that these fiew lines
may reach your hands and find you
all well and doing well I
recievd your kind letter of the
26 July and was glad to her
from you all and to har that
you had had rain to revive
your corn and veg tables I have
recievd your letters all in due
time and have rote to you
regular and I started forty
dollars to you by John Burns
I rote F P P F Hinton
a fiew lines and put the money
in it and rote to him to
drop middleton a fiew
lines to cum after it it
started the 15 and I was looking
for a letter form you a bout
it it when I recievd the
letter you rote the 26 July
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and I shal look on til I hear
from you we left shel
Bridg port yestoday and cum
back to Chattanoga and we ar
a bout ten miles above
Chattanooga on the Knoxville
rode thar is three divisions
in this part with a bout forty
thousand men to each
division which makes
1,2000 I Just rite you these
lines to let you no whar I was
and [t]hat I was well I have nothing
of im portance to rite to you
I want you to rite soo[n] and rite
oftan Marlows boys is in
the hospittle and I have not heard
From them snce they left
Nothing more a at presant
but remans yours t[r]uly so farwell

WP Mangum To
LC Mangum and
M B Mangum