Larkins Landing Alabama                 

April 11^th 1864

 

Dear Mother

                        I will now write a fiew lines to you to let you know that I am well. I have not recd the things you sent to me yet My Regt is expecting to get started for home this week but I do not know wheather we will or not but I hope so the boys are all in good spirits now they are all well and we have made up our mind to see the end of this war if we live long enough the Deer Park boys are all in for three years more but George Hawk and Leander Saxon. George said he would go but he is at / Huntsville and thare is none of us seen him lately we do not get but thirty days furlough I had about as live be in the Army as at home because I could not come home and stay thare contented while this war lasts we will all come home and stay 30 days and then we are ready to go to the front again. the quicker the war is over the quicker we boys will come home to stay I think this springs and falls campaign will do the most of it. the most of the old soldiers are going into the Army again. I do not think the 55 will be behind in aney thing if you could see us boys carry on you would think we enjoyed ourselves. you never need feel aney ways alarmed about us without we are sick or in a fight and if we are in a fight thare is / always some left to tell the story I had a letter from a young lady at Normal University yesterday I like to corespond with her I will show you the letter when I get home I have had three from her now I wrote a letter to Ed the other day it is the pleasantest day that I have seen this year the birds are singing and it is so warm that we are sitting around in the shade and writing letters most of the boys are not going to let thare folks know that they are going to come home and that they have reinlisted but I want you to know it and I do not want you to feel aney ways bad about it because I think I know best whether I ought to go in or not I have about wor out the ague I think but still I may have it once in a / while but thare is nothing like getting used to a thing I have had it so much that I can have it about when I want it and some times oftener. I never have heard from Sarah Dudley lately I am expecting a letter from her all the time with her photograph also Marth Smiths' how is Uriel now tell him I want him to get well by the time I get home I will bring him some catrages and [faded] if I think of it. I do not want you to say aney thing about what Charles West did it makes no difference aney way Calvin Langster and I are on one post to gether he is writing to he has just gone up to dinner and he will be back in a fiew minutes and I will go I will not write aney more this time we are all well from your son John D Beach

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