August the 11^th 1864

Camp near Holley Springs

 

Dear Beloved Wife with the greatest of pleasure and mutch respect it is that I can once more enjoy the preasant oportunity of righting you a fiew lines to inform you that I am well and harty and I hope when those fiew lines may find you and them little children in the enjoyment of good health Well Cordelia we are at Holley Springs yet but I think that we will not stay hear very long for all the surplus bagage of the officers and their tents were sent back to Memphis yesterday evening but I dont think that we will leave before tomorow and maby not for to or three days but we will have to leave in a fiew days / Nor I cant tell where we will have to go to from hear Well it has ben very wet hear for severl days and it is still raining this morning yet and I expect we will have a wet spell of weather But I would rather see it a little dry hear than to have to march in the mud But we will have to take it just as it comes But I am glad that we onley have about one year to work for unkle Sam yet but I would like it mutch better to see this rebellion come to a close Well Cordelia I have not had aney letter from you for to weeks and I feel very anxious to hear from you for I feel very uneasey about you and them little girls O^h how I would like to read a letter from you this morning 

 

Cordelia when you answer this letter tell me whether little Emma is growing aney and whether little sarah has growed aney yet and tell Nancy Jane that Pap will wants her to right him a letter and pap will answer it right away and that he will direct it to her in the place of mother I expect it would please her all most to death to get a letter directed to her and right and let me no how you are getting along and what kind of a humor Father is in I have never got aney answer to that letter that I rote him well Cordelia I must quit for it is raining and I have no dry place to right / I want you to right as often as you can

 

so nothin more at preasant

 

But I still remain

your Affectionate Companion

Hugh Bay to

Cordelia A Bay

                                   

right soon

so Good Buy

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