May the 25 1863

 

Dear wife I seat myself to let you know how I am getting along I am not getting any better my breast hurts me all the time the doctor talked like sending me off to the hospital and I want you and your father to come and see if you can get me home I do not want to have to go to georgia and I want you to come and see me I would run awy and come home but I rather try to get off some other way I no kenedea he will let me go home if you cant come I want your father to come and how I do not know for certain whether they will send me off or not they was / talking of it on saturday I told them I did not want to go to the hospital I would rather go home or stay in the regiment and do not what they will do with me yet I want you to come as soon as you can for fear they send me off if you can come you can stop in shelbyville and let your father come out to camp they will let me go there or they have let some do it we are camped one mile from town right up the river Cul I do not want you to come if there is any of the children sick or any thing else that you cant leave I can still go about yet the reason I have to go is the doctor says I will have to go through a regular course of medicine and they canot atend to me here 

 

Cul I do not want you to think I am bad off for I am not that is not what I am sending for you for it is because they might send me off I will have quit Capt george is about ready to start write if you cant come I do not want to be uneasy about you for I am no worse than I was when I left home I am not getting any better and that is the reason they are talking sending me off where I can get better attention

                                                                                   

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