the helth of all is good I sent a recit home in a leter coling for 50 dolars i fere it has go up and i sent a coppy of the recite home in a leter it was on the back of a leter dont say any thing a bout the leter so the woman that write it will git to here that i sent her leter home if the recit is lost and the copy i dont know wate to doo i fere it has go up you said in you leter that you had recived 17.00 dolars that was all that i sent wen i was at nashvill 

 

this has bin a nice dry fall for the army to move the rods is nice and dry if the wether set in wet we will have a bad time I dont see i dont see how we can move that is if it set in wet wether thare is one devision of our Corps cross the river to feel for the rebs and we have orders to be redy to move that is if thay find tham in forse thay have bin a cross a bout too ours thare has nothing hapen yet thay will all come back that is if thay dont git in a fight i dont think thay will I have just had diner and feel very well / I want every thing that i have sold that is if jocph dont farm if he dont want mi wagon and harness and plows thay are of nou you to me if you need tham cepe tham if not sell tham that is if you can git the worth of tham or near the worth if i live to git home i dont think i will stay very long if this war is not over wen mi time is up i entend to git in some kind of guverment imploy unkle sam pays the best wages and i want to work for him thare is lots of places beter than in the ranks thare is lots of teamsters wanted and thay git 40 dolers a month /

this may be the last leter that you will git for some time thare is talk of making arad and if thay doo thay will be nou mail sent to rear the mail will go out in the morning i will write often i can have tham cock redy and wen this is over i will let you nou and then you can send tham by mail

 

Send me a fue stamps in the next leter you write I am glad that Jocph has got home i wold be glad to be thare but mi time is not up yet

write soon to

Cyrus Pettijohn 

 

I want you to write to me as soon as you git this and a blige you friend Cyrus Pettijohn tell henry an john I want tham to write to me I had a nice time of coming back to the rigement I got back to the very our that I was to I com back on the coast it is a nice way of travling I hope to live to go home the same way I think if our army pore in to force at the difers places it wont be long but if thay fall it will be a good long time yet

 

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wen you direct you leter as folows

                                    Cyrus Pettijohn

                                    50 O.V.I.

                                    Cmp E in Care

                                    of Capten Guthrie

                        by luis vill

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