Camp Coustons Bluff

Feb the 21^st 1862

 

Miss Mary Hodnett

Dear sister it is with pleasure that I seat my self this evening to answer your kind letter which I received in Due time and read the same with pleasure it found me in good health and these lines leaves me in good health and hope they may reach you all injoying the same blessing mary I have no news of importance to write you I think we have savannah pretty safe now we are getting well fortified on the river the yankeys are in site yet but Dont come any closer to us they shoot at our boats some times/passing to skidaway and back but they are too far off to hit hurt them it is wasting their ammunition we have blockaded all the creeks and river and got bateries all about on the river. enough of that perhaps you said cousin John was wanting to know where I am write to him and tell him to bee sure to write to me to savannah

 

We hear no talk of our leaving here yet but I expect we will go to kentuckey this spring if we leave here. Mary you wrote to me about Thomas Stephens beeing Dead I was verry sorry to hear of his Death I thought as much of him as any new acquaintance I ever have formed and no doubt but he was/a good soldier. I taken him to bee a clever man if he has paid the debt we all have to pay sooner or later. Mary I am sorry to hear of your trouble we all liable to misfortunes and troubles Mary you must excuse these lines as I am in a hurry tell all the girls howdy and give them my respects to Mollie and sis especially. nothing more at present only I remain your Brother till Death           J W. Hodnett

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