Head Quarters 64 Regt OV

December the 20^th /62

Camp Near Nashville Tenn

 

Dear Love I received your letter the 19^th was glad to hear from you and the rest I did not know but you was sick or dead for it was along time before I got this one since I heard from you but still they come and yet there is room I am well and in very good spirits and allways have been since I have been in service and always expect to be but time will tell all better than I can but I am sorry that you have been sick but still that does no good but my simpathies are with you in all the troubles of life some times I feel vext / to think how some of my friends feel about my welfar and a great many other things you know more about the stories than I do I think if they tend to their own buisiness that will be enough for them but some folks do not have enough so they have to try their hand on some one els but time will bring it all out right yet I think if it does not eternity will and I think the best way is not to notice it so let it pass and now for some thing els we are in a comfortable condition and the weather fine the whole army lays here yet and will for some time yet we are geting new tents and stoves for each one that is the one thing neadfull the worst of all is our rations is a little short but still we have enough to make us all right you / know that we want to be [?] up ready for the rase when it comes off if it should ever it will be one way or the other but do not know which way it will be we may have to back up a short distanc but hope not I should like to see this thing over with but cannot tell when but happy will be the day when it will be there will be some joyous old times way up north I wonder if there will be any dansing there may be some in a hogs trough or something like that but I never saw it but if it is so I have been there but I do not car tow cents about it I was over to the 101 Regt yesterday the most of the Auburn boys was well but they do not look like our boys they are blacked up by smook and the sun the southern climate does not change complexion of ours or the white Regt like it does niew ones / but they must live and learn and learn to leave also but they are a getting along well I think for new beginers I will tell you how they bake cakes and pies and so on the get out som [?] and set a tin flat on the coals with what ever they have to bake and turn a mess pan over it and cover it with coals and we have learned a fiew tricks of a similar maner there has been no excitement here but are looking for an atact here but I do not think that will be the case for we are under cover of the fortifycations at Nashville but Love I should like to be with you a short time at least but it cannot be so at this time therefore I must close for this time write soon and often and remember your ever true friend and lover give my respects to all yours truly from your affectionate

           

Lover and best wisher Yours

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