Fourt Pickering

Memphis Tennessee

June the 18^th 1863

 

Dear Wife with

the gratest of pleasure and much respect it is that I can enjoy the present oportunity of righting you a fiew lines to let you no that I am well and harty and I hope those fiew lines may find you all enjoying the best of health the weather here is very warm but it is thundering this afternoon and I think we will have a shower this evening 

 

Well Cordeliann I received your kind and much welcomed letter that you rote to me when you was at wooster and I was very glad to hear from you but right and let me no all the particulers about matters there I supose some of them would take Crids part but they may say just what they pleas but such talk would never started if he had not said some thing about it and a man that will desert from the armey in my opinion dont have much / respect for himself or nobody els and I consider that a disgrace to his friends and he has disgraced us but I rote a letter to him that if ever he gets it he will find out what I think of him I sent you a copy of it to you to let you see what kind of a letter I sent him when you get it right and let me no what you think of it and if aney of them in wooster takes his part they are not one bit better than he is well Cordeli I am stouter now / than I have been for four months and I am full of fun there was one hundred of our boys taken up the river to have a little fun with the gurileys they had planted some artillery on the bank of the river to distroy our boats our old major went in command of the squad that went and not more than to minutes ago I learned that the old major sent in for reinforcements and also that three of our artilerymen got wounded

 

well they have sent the major to more pieces of artillery and some infantry and you dont no how I would like to go to but they wont let the cooks go I would like to see some of the fun to for it is onley fun to shoot rebels and I expect there is some of them in indiana well it is begining to rain and my shanty roof leeks and I must quit but I will tell you how they will come out with the little fight the next / letter I right

 

so nothing more but I remain

your Dear Beloved

Companion

to my Dear

Wife and little

Children

            Hugh Bay

to Cordeliann Bay

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