Jackson mis sis sippi June 28 1863
dear wife its withe pleasure this good
Sabbath morning that I am Blst withe the
op por tunity of Riting to you onst more to
let you no that I am well as comon
and I Bleav I feel Better than I hav in
A long time and O may thas fue lins find
you and my dear Children well tena I am
frade you wont git this letter this is the
third letter I hav Rote to you sence I hav
Bin hear O pane to mee I hav not got
the firs mark of A pen from your hand
in nearley two monthes the last one I got
was Rote the 10 of may tena the time seemes
O how long I dont want to scold you
A Baut it But I wood Be powerful glad
to git one from you O yes you dont no
how glad I wood feel tena it is A hard
pant I am hear and not any Con nection
in this Rig ment you hav sum hear
Ad shepperd Be longs to this Reg mant
But he has not Bin with us mutch he
has Bin on detail the most of his time
to work on Brigges and Sutch like
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I hearn from you the other day By John
Jinkens I thout you mite hav sent mee
A letter By him he sed you was All
well So fair as hee node that gav mee Ease
tena [?????] I hav nuthing strang to
Rite this time thair is not mutch fiting
A going on now tho I hav hearn SevRil
Canons this morning I supose thair shell
ing Each other A little we air liabele to
git in to A fite at A most any time
the most I hear is from East ten nessee
A Baut noxvill the feds seems to Render
that part of the Con fedaircey un Easey
I Am in hopes we will Be orderd
Back to East tennessee I Just as soon
stay hear as to go Back to middle
tennessee I Bleav I wood hav my helth
Better hear than thair tena that sweet
name to mee hardey is now ouer Com
manding Colonel and Capt ton J M Ray
is ouer liutenant Colonel Ray I think he
will pleas the Regmant fine I
think A heep more of him that I did
while at home mee and him gits A
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long fine I am still his horse ler Elick
wagner was in withe mee to at tend
to hardys stock But he is Cick and at
the hors pittle But is gitting Better ale[?]
Alen Fox is helping mee now goodson
RobBerds has A hard t[????] gitin
in he has sent up his Re[??] no
severil times But it Cums Back dis ap
proved all the while Colonel hardey has
hearn that his child was ded and he is
triing to git leav of Abcence for A
fue days to go home and if he duse I
will send you sum money And in A
letter to Elxanders and if he can git
off I am A going to Beg him vary hard
to go home with him tena I will send
Cum money to you Just as soo as I hav
the Chance I am A frade you and the
Children is sufering for it tell Rebeckey
and margrett Edmonds houdey and your dear
old mother houdey for mee tell hur that
we air A long ways A part By Rale Rode
the way we cum its A Baut Eight hundred
mils tell pats and Cabe and lizey and leakey
all houdey well in fact tell all of
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of my frends houdey I am in hopes I hav
no Enemeys in old Bun Comb I feeld
like tha was all my frends tell my
dear little Children that I Eat A fue Ripe
peeches the other day o how it hurt my
[???]ings to think I was so fur A way
from home that I cood not hand you
or the Children one of them James Ramsey
is hardeys and Rays Coock and he Coocts
sum for mee tell ab and Cris houdey and
tena tell or send word to Jo that I wood
like to hear from him and that I wish
him suck sess in all his undertakens
tena Be Shore to tell ant Jane penland
houdey and that I hav not forgot hur
yet and the [???] sh gav mee the last
time I Ever saw hur tell hur that I
in Joy my Self first Rate Concidering my
sit uation O I hav to Clos O the Babey
how Bad I want to see him yes and Brug
and Cis and margrett whoo Elce wy tena
Role one weet momments and let me go home
tena thair one more thing I want you to no
that I pray for you Evriday John W Reese to
that I Cood hear that good news Cristena v Reese