September the 3^rd 1864

Memphis Tennessee

 

Dear Beloved and Affectionate Companion 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 for your sadisfaction Cordelia you are the best friend that I have on earth and you are never absent from my thoughts Cordelia I wish that I was at home with you today the time seems very long to get to see you and them sweet little girls But we are on our last year now we onley have eleven months and a fiew days to spend in the survice and then if I should be so lucey as to get home it is my intention to stay with you and the children / the balance of my days

Well Cordelia the weather hear is very warm and the health is midling good well I was in town this morning a fiew minutes George Teeple and I went down to the comissary to buy some grub for the Captain we are camped about one mile and a half in the rear of Memphis we have no tents nor we haint had aney since we left Memphis last January we just have to take the weather as it comes when it rains we throw our gum blankets around us and at night we just pile down and cover up with them and that is the way we have had to sleep / ever since we left hear last January But I am glad that our time is as near out as what it is Well Cordelia I have not mutch to right at preasant but I must close buy telling you that I am well and harty and I hope when those fiew lines comes to hand they will find you and the children and all the rest of the friends in the enjoyment of good health so nothing more But I still remain your Dear and Beloved Companion

Hugh Bay to

my Dear Beloved Wife

Cordelia A Bay

 

right soon so good buy

SOURCES