November the 26 1862

 

Dear Companion it is with the gratest of pleasure that I take the present oportunity to right you a fiew lines to let you no that I am well at present and I hope that these fiew lines may find you enjoying the best of health I am allmost home sick tonight for there was alot of our boys out to town this afternoon and they are some of them drunk and they are acting the fool to much for me 

 

we are going to leave here tomorow at 8 olcock for memphis tenisee and I am glad of it for I think that we will have better times than we have here I think that we will get to see the forty seventh after while I want you to right and let me no what they think about the war their at home I think that it will not last more than to or three months I hope that we will get home again in the spring 

 

I went to town today and got some post stamps and I will right to you often and you must do the same right and let me no whether you got that likenes and that dollar and that picture so I must stop righting for this time so no more at present but remains your Dear and beloved husband H Bay

to my Dear beloved

Wife and children

 

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