Nashville April the 22 1862

 

Dear sister i resieved your leter yesterday with much plesure and was very hapy to here from you and to here that you was well and duing well your leter found me well once more altho i am not quite as strong as i was before being sick but i feel well and harty as ever i have got so that i can eat my full rasions and as much more as i can git i have got a very good apitite and firstraite and i am a wating here to git a chance to go to my regment for i giting quite ambisions to try camp life again for i am a giting tired of staying here in this hospitle for this is most lonsom place that i have ever seen and i am giting quite ambisions now to join my old comrads again in camp life for i think it will be far more plesent in camp now than it is here for it warm and plesent here in this contry this this is the most plesent time in the hole year in this contry the trees are all clothed with the richness and beauties of summer and every thing is very plesent for the ey to look at the dul and heavy clouds of winter has once more pared away and the bright sun has once more shone forth its warm and plesent ray rays of spring which fills our harts with gladness and none will welcom it more gladly than the soldier for it will be far more plesent in camp life than it was in the cold and chiley days of winter and the hours will pass off more plesent and more cheerful we can look forward with the bright hope of good dry land to walk upon for it has ben nothing but mud and rain all last winter i think that it will be more helthy this somer than it was in the winter for we will not be so much exposed to the cold and damp as in the winter if i can have my helth after this it is all that i can ask for sickness is a very bad thing in a place like this 

 

i got a leter from beckey yesterday and she say that the folks are all well at home and duing well and that is good news for me you sayed that you wanted me to come home and i talked as tho i would git a furlow a while ago but i am well now and redy for duty i think it will be doutfull about me coming untill this war is over and if i can have my helth i am wiling to stay i want to git to my regment as soon as i can i want to have a hand in the next great batle that will come off soon at corinth i have not heard from Frank lately i would to here from him i think it is very doutfull about him being in the batle at pitsburg landing for i dont see the name off the regment that he belongs to in of the papers you wanted to no what regment that frank belongs to he belongs to 19 illinois regment this is the descripsioun Frank seborn Co G 19^th Reg ill Vol i dont no where he has his leters directed to for i did not think to ask him when i saw him last mary you wanted me to let you no if i had enuff to eat and ware and furthermore you sayed that if i wanted eny thing that you would send it to me i have aplenty to eat and ware i have no reason to complain but it was very kind in you mary to offer that i will remember your kindness and i hope that i will be able to return it some day tell william that he must stay at home with mother for if he goes in the armey he will fool him self he would wish that he had never seen the armey before he was in a month i would like to come home and see you all before i return to the armey but i cannot for my service is required here and i must obey i must close for this time i will be hapy to here from you often to my sister mary good by direct your leters to George Rutherford Co F 2^nd Reg Minn Vol Louisville Ky

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