Memphis Tennessee

                                                                                                            March 29^th 1863

 

            Dear Fannie

                                    It is sunday to day and I will while away a few of these dull moments by talking a while with you. I am yet in the hospital but not where I was when I last wrote you. Our Regiment has moved out of the Navy Yard all but one company and are now encamped in a beautiful grove just in the suburbs of the city. our hospital had to be moved from the comfortable buildings and we are now located in tents. it is not near so comfortable as the houses were but you know that soldiers must put up with any thing that comes along. night before last we had an awful time. we had the hardest storm of wind and rain I have ever seen since I have been south. we expected our tents would blow down every moment and then we would have been exposed to a perfect torrent of rain which we should have had to lain and taken as there was no dodging it. there was many a thankful heart when the storm abated and we found that / our tents were still standing and we were comparitively dry. the water ran in streams all over the ground in our tents but as we all have cots it did not affect us farther than the dampness of the ground naturaly would a person. last night the wind blew a perfect gale and has all day to day. the weather has been so damp and cold that I have not ventured out any yet. I am waiting for a few sunny days and then I shall venture out a little

 

            It is beginning to look very much like spring down here the grass is green and growing rapidly. the trees are putting forth their green leaves the peach trees are in full bloom. there is a very singular variety of peach blossoms I will send you & Sarah a specimen that a friend picked and brought in to me yesterday. I have not heard from you for over two weeks which time seems very long since I have been confined I shall expect to get one this week any way. I have not seen Glen- for two days, but he is well and would send his best respects if he were here. but Dear Fanny I see that I must close. I have to content myself with writing short letters yet as I am pretty weak. but good by please give my love to all and not forgetting your own dear little self.

 

                        I am as ever Yours afectionately

                                                                        Frank M Guernsey

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