Decatur Ala

                                                                                                            June 14^th 1864

 

My own dear Fannie

                                    I have a few leisure moments which I will devote in writing you a few lines for the Lord only knows when I shall have an other opportunity. I wrote you a few days ago and in that letter was rather exulting over our good prospect of staying here this summer but that hope like many others has been nipped in the bud very suddenly by an order to march, consequently we are on the wing. we march for the front to join Sherman to morrow morning at nine oclock I suppose we shall go by the way of Chatanooga and from there down the Rail Road towards Atlanta. our Division is in the very front or have been, and have been doing some good fighting. I expect we will have a pretty hard march it will take us two weeks at least steady marching to reach the front, and then the weather / is so warm. but I guess that we are good for it, we never undertook a campaign yet in which we failed and I guess we shall succeed in getting through to the front some way. I have been very busy to day getting ready to leave I have written a letter to all my friends and last but not least one to my dear Fannie. I expect it will be some time before I will have an opportunity to write again but our mail communication will be kept open all the time to the front so that any letters you may send will probably be waiting me when I get there Fannie when you write please direct as before only leave off the Decatur, Ala. it will then follow the Regt wherever we go. our boys are in good spirits at the prospect of leaving much more so than I thought they would be. they are anxious to join the rest of our division. Fannie you must excuse this letter if it prooves dull and uninteresting for I have been so busy doing a little of every thing that my head is all mixed up and I have no one distinct I idea / of any thing. but you can be assured of one thing, that I wish this letter to express all the love and affection that I am capable of giving to one who is so dear to me as my little Fannie. so if you should not hear from me again in several weeks do not think it is from any lack of inclination that I dont write, for I shall remain the same through all time to come that I am now. but Fannie dear I must now close so good by (I have got a good deal to do yet before I start) accept much love from Your Affectionate

                                                Frank

 

P. S. I have not received a letter from

            you since one dated the 27^th of

            May. my love to Your people

                                                            F

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