...will turn up next. I wish we might be spared the necessity of going towards Atlanta again, for there is nothing attractive in that direction & I cant see what we can do there any how for we cant advance any further & our distance is so great from our base we are in danger of having our supplies cut off any time, & they hold our pay back because there would be no safety in sending it home from there. I know that you need the money to get the children some fall & winter clothing & I am perplexed to know what to write If I only knew what way we would go from here, I might tell better what to depend on. Well I was doing well enough at home and should have staid there to take care of my charge but I got it into my head that there would be something grand in going off big [?], mind it was not to fight, & I trusted the promises of a set of whiskey drinking officers & am now paying the penalty, but enough of this I have always got out of bad scrapes some time & think I will out of this some time before many years. I must stop for I will have no time to send it out soon, & I will write again as soon as I get a chance. Having charge of the regimental mail bothers me so I have no time write more at present. you asked about what I wore on my feet I have a pair of shoes that I drew that I have marched over 200 miles besides every day wear besides & they are good yet & easy on my feet, so you need not worry about me for I shall not suffer for clothes. you will not get the old pants I sent you for, for the nigger was snailed at Louisville Ky & put into the government service

Good bye all of you at present & here is hoping for something better in future

 C. E. Ferguson

 

Good bye dear wife

 

Dear Willie,

                        I tried to make a picture of Kenesaw mountain for you & it looks some like it did on the side that we seen it most from you must be a good boy & I will try & / make you another picture some day

 

good bye dear Willie tell jim uncle Clem wants some stamps he forgot to write it himself good bye be a good boy

from Pa

 

Dear Fannie

                        I must say a word to you for I would send you a picture but I have not time to make one I will make you one next time & Willie must show you his Be a good girl & I will write to you all again as soon as I can

from Papa

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