November the 30^th 1864

In Camp near S^t Louis M^o

 

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 let you know that I am well and harty and I hope when those fiew lines comes to hand they may find you and them sweet little girls in the enjoyment of good health Well Cordelia we have got back to S^t Louis again we have marched about seven hundred miles we was in the state of [faded] hours we got back hear day before yesterday and we got our knapsacks yesterday evening and we have signed the pay rolles yesterday and I think that we will get our pay in a fiew days / and then I will send you all the money that I can I got that letter that you sent with Andy Teeple and I got them socks and that letter that you sent with Ezra Cowin and I got that letter that Thomas rote Well Cordelia you dont know how well I would like to have ben their with you when he was their but I could not get their But we onley have about nine months to serve and then our time will be out Well Cordelia I dont think that we will stay hear but a fiew days I think that we will go down the river either to memphis or Vicks Burg But I would / sooner go down their than to stay hear this winter for it is so cold and we have no tents we just have to lay out like a lot of cattle or horses I dont think that we will get mutch reast this winter I think they might let us reast to or three months for we have had a very hard time this sumer we have had to right big snowes hear this fall while we was on this raid and it was very cold and disagreeable I have not had aney letter from Levi nor Samuel nor Albert since we left hear But I am going to right to them today and I am going to right Father an answer to the / letter that he sent me with Andy Teeple I was very glad to receive a letter from him Fred Hawk is well and harty Well Cordelia this is the first time that I have had a good chance to right since we left hear O^h Cordelia how well I would like to be at home with you this sabath morning but we are laying out hear in the open field Well Cordelia that is all that I have to right at preasant so nothing more at preasant But I still remain your Beloved Companion

 

From Hugh Bay to

Cordelia A Bay

 

right soon

so good buy

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