US General Hospital No 2      Chatanooga Tenn            July 1^st 1864

 

                                                                                                                        Dear Father

I will try and write you a few lines to let you know how I am getting along I took the diarehea on the 12^th of June and it reduced me so that I could not walk so my Lieut took me down and had the headquarters Surgeon to examine me he thought that I would better go to a hospital so on the 16^th I went to the General field hospital staid there 1 day and were then moved in Government wagons to Altoona distance 5 miles the roads were very rough and I was so weak I thought that it would kill me we staid there over night and next morning we were put on board the train for Chatanooga owing to an accident on the railroad we did not get there untill the next evening about 9 oclock we were then taken in ambulances to the Hospital In 2 days after I had been here the diareah stopped on me and I have not had it since I am still weak but I run around the hospital all the time I think I shall be well enough to return to the front in a week or 10 days Ben Roser was over to see me day before yesterday he looks as well as I ever seen him He & Bill Miner & Jack Simmons are over in the convalescent camp Jake Miner has deserted the company he passed through Chatanooga with the 11 Ohio when they went home they were passing him as one of their men it will go hard with the old fellow if he is caught and that he surely will be Ben Roser told me that me that Polley was dead but he did not know what he died with I suppose his insides were burnt out with whiskey that is what I think killed him I get first rate grub here at this place we get tea to drink good soft bread apple sauce potatoes and meat we also get blackberries and custard there are 2 women superintend the cooking of fruits and things they are both from Kentucky I believe I have given you all the news I can think of at present so I will close for the present

 

                                                                                                Your son Amos Guthrie

 

Address Amos Guthrie

            Signal Corps Headquarters 23^rd Army Corps in the field

 

in care Capt M^cReary             I expect to go to the front in a few days

 

                        Answer soon and give me all the news

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