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March 29^th /62

camp Near

Nashville Tenn

Co H 64 Regt OV

Care Charles R Lord Capt

 

Dear Love it is with pleasure that I address you these fiew lines to inform you the where abouts of the old 64 and the state of things here in the first place I am enjoying good health better than I have for a while back I give up teeming on the acount of bad health but am fit for duty now I was out on picket gueard the last 24 hours and our company will go out to morrow morning I expect that will be our buisness while here but from appearance of things we will leave here / shortly there is 100 teems ready for 2 haul provisions for our brigade and part of them are loaded now but do not know where we are destined to go but it may be that we will not go for a while but I did not tell you where we are we are in the same old place that we were when I last wrote to you but for fear you did not get the last I will state to you a gain we are about 3 miles south of Nashville in a secess country but is a nice country I have wrote to once a week since I left ohio but the facilities are not good for carring the mail we have not got but 2 mails since we came here Love one or 2 letters from you and one from home and this makes 6 that have wrote but it is not likely that you have receive either one of / them but am not homesick for that yet I feel perfectly at home and James feels perfectly contented his health is very good better than looked for when he came I think he will stand it good the health of the regt is good but I can acount for the reason of that we have good living and plenty of it to what more can we ask for there is one thing that I should like and that is a rosa cheeked girl that live near a place cald George Bloom and some times she use to entertain a boy in a little parlor built on the east side of the house and I hope some time to enjoy that privatly if she does not say no but think she will not but if she does it will be the first time for but will trust to provadence for the rest but to tell the truith of things I often / imagin myself in the embrace of my Dear Lover and salute those seet lips of hers it puts me in mind of times past and brings to mind the many pleasent interviews we have had to gether which I never will forget while memory last cannot see why it is so but it is true hope soon to enjoy the same but I must close soon but will wait till the mail comes in may be there will be a letter for me

 

the mail has come in but no letter yet this I will send this by Dave Cummings as he starts home to morrow morning to recruit for our company but my Dearest Love remember the same as when I left you at your home and content yourself as best you can and remember me as your friend and Lover and receive this from your affectionate Love give my best respects your Sister & Father & Mother write soon and often as you can you must not wait for me to write first for I do not have the opportunity that you do but remain yours from friend and Lover

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