tullahoma march the 1 1863
Dear wife it is with pleas ure that I
Am pur mitted this good Sab Bath
morning to let you no that I am yet
A mon the living and in Joying tolerBill
helthe Better than I hav Bin for A long
time hoping thas fue lins may find
you and the Chil dren All well I
deziar that thing A Bov All things
I hear in your letters I hop and
trust that helth may Be granted to
us All tell I Reach home O what A
happey meeting it will Bee for mee
to meet you and the Children onst
more on urth and set down and talk with
you I ust to lov to talk with you
when I had Bin gon off any whair in the
Settlment I loved to tell you what
I had saw and hearn while I was gon
I will hav somthing to tell you this time
whin I Returne if I Am pur mitted to doo
so and I hope and trust and pray that this
privelig may Be granted to mee I Recieved
your kind letter last nite o how glad
it mad mee to hear from you and the
Children it was Rote the 23 of february
it giv mee A good deel of sats faction
to hear from All you sed you
had Recieved you did not say how mutch money
was in any of them I hav sent you in
All one hundred dollars in All and I
want you to Rite if you hav Recieved
as mutch as A hundred or not
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in his pocket
tell John he shal hav A nife if I liv to put
I want to no if you Ever got that letter
I sent to Elxanders and that hair Brush and
Candy and Ruperts A porn you Rite All A
Bout those thing in you next letter with
out fail you ort to All ways Rite A
Bout sutch thing in time so I cood at tend
to it if thair was any Rong to take place
and whoo you Bout your Corne of and
whoo is dooing you milling for you and
Cuting your wood and how you
air making out for Cow feed dont Be A
frad of Riting two mutch to mee for I
Cood Reed your letters if tha was as long
A gain as what tha air if tha was A lit
tle Better spelt the times is A Bout
as tha was when I Rote to you the other
day this is the third letter I hav started sence
James W Ray left Camps the yankeys has
has taken hunts vill in Alabam and Re
ports say that thirty thousan has Crost at
the Cumberlen gap in to East tennessee
the waters is All up for it Rains hear Everi
day nearley the feds has fixt up the Rail Rode
that run from luivill Cantuckey to nashvill
and from nashvill to murfrees Boro and
and Can Reinforse hear as mutch as tha pleas
tha air seling flouer at three dollars pur
hundred and shugar at ten Cents pur pound and
Coffey at fifty Cent pur pound We will
soo hav the yanks starv out it favers it
dont it this thing will hav to Close yes
doo your Best to git sum Boddy
to Agree to Cum to this Regmant
So I Can Cum After them Rite soon
John W Reese to
Cristena V Reese