August the 4^th 1863

Fourt Pickering

Memphis Tennessee

 

Dear Beloved Wife

with the greatest of pleasure it is that I can once more 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 the enjoying the best of health

 

Well I wont have time to right but a fiew lines for I am going to go to Vicks Burg to take a lot of prisners to their regiments so I will have to close for this time nothing more but I remain your Dear Companion Hugh Bay

to Cordelia Ann Bay /

 

right soon

 

think not hard of me for not righting more at this time but I will right you a good long one just as soon as I get back

           

So good buy

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