January the 18 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 well with the exception of the diare and I hope that these fiew lines may find you all enjoying the best of health we are still at Memphis yet and think that we will stay here all winter there is not much excitement here now there is a good many geting discharges here now and I think / that there will bee a good maney more discharged before long but I think that we will all get home again spring I wish that I was at home with you and the children now I think of you every minet in the day and dream of you at night right and let me no how you are geting along and whether Lind Elsworth lives there yet right and let me no whether Hariet is going to stay on her place let me no whether her man has any team of his own / and let me no whether he is well off or whether he is a poor man right and let me no what kind of times the people has there this winter So nothing more at present but remains your Dear and beloved Companion Hugh Bay to my Dear beloved wife Cordeliann Bay and children

right soon

 

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