Corinth, Miss

No. 28.

October the 2, /63

 

Dear Mollie,

We are again in camp. I think we will releave the 16 army core. they have been here along time doing nothing. I think they will go east it may be that we will not stay here long, but I think it is about time that we have some rest for we have been on the move for more than a year without eny rest. we got here the last day of Sept. they have some good quarters here which we will ocupy as soon as they get out. we left memphis about 11 oclock & got here about 8 the same eavening, a distence of 95 miles. this is easier traveling than it is to go afoot. I wrote a letter at memphis, or rather finished it & left it with McMuten to mail. / he said he would mail it at memfis or Cairo. he is going to St Louis, into the Invaled core with two more from our company I tell you Mary our company is a geting very small. we left Sam Rorick Denes Snow & M. Murry at memfis in the hospital, two are home on furlow & some on detatched service, so it leaves us with only 20 men in our company & some of them are not fit for duty. Will Ferguson is sick nearly half of his time. some times he will be well & harty, & then he will be taken very suden with a kind of fit & palpertation of the hart & it seems as though he could not live, & in an hour or two he will walk about. he cant stand the service much longer. well Mary the letter you sent with Landon was a good long one & I was glad to get it for I had not had one since the one you sent / by Henry Robinson, so you see I wanted a long one. the letter you sent the week before I have not got. I think I will get it in a day or two. our moving has made a change with the mail. I think we will get our mail quicker than we did when we were on black river, for we can go from here to cairo in 36 hours. thare is nothing positive about our staying here eny length of time. we may go on to Chatnuga or to Rosencrance. thare is no telling at present. you spoke in your letter about Hugh & Ann. I think they are doing all the bill calls for in line of babys, but they are not of the right kind for soldiers. I think they have something to learn yet. I wish you would write to them & ask them if they have forgoten me. I have writen them two letters & have not heard from them yet. if they dont wanto write to me I would like to know it & I would not trouble them with my letters 

 

I saw Dow at memphis, his foot has got well but it is very tender he walks lame yet. he thinks he will never go to his regiment he is in the secret poliece & I think is doing well.

 

well Mary the mail is going out right off so I must stop so good by            

Oliver  Mollie

 

well Mary the mail went out before I got my letter in so I thought I would write a litle more. I think I never saw a man improve in health as fast as Landon did while he was gone home. when he left he could not cary his valiece & now he is as tuff as ever he was. if we stay here I think I can get a furlow after a while. if I can I will come home & see if I wont fat up to. my health is very good but I am not as fleshy as I use to be it is with me like the most of the soldiers, rather pale like the Sotherners. it is owing to the climet

 

now when you write, tell me all & I will feel better than I will as it is no more this time

 

direct as usual,            From yours truly         Oliver  Mollie

 

[margin] my eyes are rather weak & you would oblige me if you would write with a pen.

 

you must not send me eny more stamps for I have 25 now & they will last a long time.

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