[Letterhead: Headquarters, Military Division of the Mississippi,

Office Provost Marshal General,]

                                                                        [Nashville, Tenn.,] October 31st [1864.]

 

Dear John,—

Your few lines of the 26^th is on hand and the information all O.K.—Charles Cone and M^r Martin, who are going home to vote, will call on you as they see me often & a very agreeable aquaintance has sprung up between us.—They are willing to bring me a package and I therefore ask, that you will send me my Dress coat,—I think it is in the botom drawer of my bureau.—Capt. Squires gives me a very satisfactory account of you, which makes me grateful for your wellfare.—I know of nothing especial to write to you.—With the exception of Uncle Augustus I do not hear from any one in N.Y.,—I don’t know why Uncle W^m keeps such silence, unless he got offended at a certain matter I wrote to him about last August;—he, however, has no reason to be.—

Your &c

                        Edward

 

Nov. 1^st 1864

            Charley went away without calling on me, I send this by Riley Van Patton.—

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