Fourt Pickering

May the 19^th /63

Memphis Tennessee

 

Dear Beloved Wife    

with the gratest of pleasure and the necessity of answering your kind and welcomed letter it is that I take the present oportunity to pen you a fiew lines for your sadisfaction your kind letter was received with much joy and it gave me much pleasure to learn that you was all well and I was very glad to hear that you had got your money but you did not tell me how much money he you got I sent twenty dollars 

 

well Cordeliann you rote in your letter that if I could get a furlough I should come home well if I can get one in the course of a month or to I will come home to spend a fiew days with My Dear Wife and sweet little children O it would be the gratest sadisfaction that you could emagion tell Nancy Jane that Pap will fetch her them ear bobs when he comes home well if I will right a little piece and put it inside of this for you to give to Hen Kern concerning the cradle right / and let me no what Catharine calls her girl and let me no how ^Mr Wells and his lady is getting along buy this time                        

 

May the 21 63

Well Cordeliann I thought I would right a little more I got a letter from Wooster today from Mother and they was all well she ses that little Sarah Catharine is well and harty well we have been looking for an atack by old Chalmers the same old gentleman that took us prisners at Munfords Ville but if the old gentleman wants to try us again just let him come ahead we will treet him with all the / blue pills and sometimes a shell and a fiew grapes and canister we have not seen old Vandorn for some time and we would like to have him come up and show himself we are always anxious to see old friends I think that he wont find a munfords ville job of it if he comes for we have a fiew pop guns here that I could almost crawl in and turn round and crawl out well I must close buy telling you that I am well and harty and hope these fiew lines may find you all enjoying the best of health nothing more at present but I remain your Dear Companion

Hugh Bay to Cordeliann Bay and children

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