April 23 1863

Fourt Pickering Memphis Tennessee

 

most dear and beloved wife it is with the gratest of pleasure that I enjoy the privilige of once more righting to you to let you no that I am well and I hope that when these fiew lines reaches you they will find you and the little children and all the rest of the friends enjoying the best of health I received your kind and welcomed letter with the gratest of pleasure and you may have some ide of the joy and sadisfaction it gave me to hear from you but amidst all the joy and sadisfaction it grieved me very much to hear that you and Nancy Jane was not well

 

well my dear and beloved Wife you will have to take good care of yourself and not expose your self to the wet and bad wether I would like to be at home with you if I could but I cant now / I still hope that the time is not far distant when we can all return home in peace well we got our pay today and I will send you twenty dollars with Noah glass I think that he will start home again the first of next week Aprile 24 well my Dear Companion this morning I thought I would right you a little more well I cant send you aney money with Glass for he dont like to take so much with him but I think that Irey Neptune and George teeple will get furloughs to go home in a fiew days and Irey Neptune says he will take it for me I will send you $20 and I want you to right and let me no whether I shall come home on a furlough or not it will cost about twenty dollars to come home and I would like to come home and see you all but it will cost somuch that I hate to spend so much money / for I would like to save all I can I think that they will give furloughs in a fiew days but if I come home I dont want to come til about the last of June or the first of July I will get Irey Neptune to leave your money at Fathers well there was some cuting up done last night among some of the boys in the regiment but I always have enough to do to go to bed and and not be tearing round until twelve oclock at night and some of them will buy sweet cakes and pies until they will make themselves sick for sweet cakes and pies are the worst thing that they can eat here I dear not eat aney sweet atol not even as much as drink sweetened coffee for it gives me the diare right off 

 

well I must bring my letter to a close so nothing more but I remain your beloved Companion to my Dear Wife and children

Hugh Bay to

Cordeliann Bay

 

right soon

 

when this you see

remember me

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