January the 14^th 1863

 

Dear beloved Wife 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 not very well but still I am not sick I have have the diare for about three weeks and I hope that these fiew lines may find you all enjoying the best of health it comenced raining to night and it is still raining yet and it is very wet geting about I got a letter from Wooster the other day and they was all well / they rote to me that Mother was coming out in the spring to see you and the rote that Alexander is in the 16 Ohio Regt I got a letter from Levi and he is about the same they have left Heleny and have gone up the white river and they thought they would go to Littlerock I think that we will stay here all winter or til the war is over I dont think that it will bee long til the war will end and I dont care how quick it will end 

 

right and let me no how you are geting along and how the rest of the folks are all getting along no thing more at present but remains your dear and beloved Companion

Hugh Bay to

Cordeliann Bay

and dear little

Children

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