tul lahoma , tn , february the 27 1863
Dear wife with pleasure I Am pur mitted to
drop you A fue lins to let you no that
I Am tolebill well at presant with som
Exsepcian my Eys and knees pesters mee
vary Bad my eys is A little Better But
tha pester mee A good deel A Bout Riting
tha giv out So Bad it taks mee two or three
trials to Rite A letter I Am in hops thase
fue lins may find you and the Children
All well and dooing well tho I no it
is a Bad Chance for you to doo well
I hav not Recieved A let ter from any
of you in A long time not sence you
Sent one that James W Patton Rote for
you I Recieved one the Same time from
Sarh C Edmonds I answerd Both of them
and Set one to James W Patton and wood Be
glad to Reciev the same from you All as
it is so long Betwen if you node
how mutch good it dus mee to git
A letter from old Buncomb you wood
keep one on the Rode to mee yes wood you
John G Chambers has got Back But he sed
that Mr Burnett sed he wood git
Capton Ray or Capton Robbrets to Bring
them to mee the times is hard hear
you cood sel A pie the cise of your
hand for fiftey cents or Beens at fiftey
Cents pur quart or any thing of the
Cas kind for Just as mutch as you
wood ask Chickens from three to five dollars
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the helthe of this Regmant is Bad we
air losing A heep of men hear we air in
A vary un helthey place the land is low
marshy and I think the poorest part of
middle tennessee the land is thin But
level tena as for Real good helth I
hav lost it All I Cant Eat any thing
hardley the Corne Bread I Cant Eat it
to doo any good un less it is Raised well
I hav got mee A pone on to Rais then I
think I can Eat my supper tena you
dont no how Bad I want to see you and
the Children you may think you doo But
poor thing you dont you hav no idey
But if I liv I think I will See you All
if any of the Boys that hant volenteer and
had any idey of dooing so and wanted to
Cum to this Regmant and wood Rite to
mee tha wood let mee off to git Re
Cruits I wish sum of my old nabers was
hear it wood Bee A heep of Sats faction
to mee I want you to try to git sum of
the Boys to A gree to Cum if I was at
home now I think I Cood fix A Baut and
hav sum Corne mad tell Ab if he
dus hav to go I want him to Cum hear
and to Rite to mee as soon as he Can and I
will put him in A way to make A good
deel of money it is A grate time for Spec
ulatan and as man more as will Cum
to let Ab send mee thair names not
that I want to git them in to this
un holey woar I will on a Red pe[??]
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