Chattanooga Tenn

Aprile 15^th 1864

 

                                                                                                                        Dear Julia it

is with plesure that I take my pen in hand to inform you that I am well and harty and I hope that those few lines ma find you all well and harty

 

Well Julia I received your verrey kind and welcomed letter to day of the 5^th of this munth and was glad to hear from you and to hear that you was all well and doing well

 

Well Julia if I was at home to day I could tell you more in five minnits than I can rite in a half of a day but I cant be there and if you hear that I am well and harty I recken that / you will be satisfied but I will tri to tell you something elce be fore I quit if I can but if I dont you nedent be disapointed

 

You sed in your letter that you hopet that I would not hav to go in to a nuther battle be fore my time was out you nedent be unesey a bout that for we will not hav enney more fiting to do I will tell you something a bout our Battery while we was gon to nashville we was asind to this post the same night that we got back from nashville ther was a order cum for fifty of us to report to the post quartermaster for duty to take care of horses then in a few days ther was / a nuther order for forty eight men to be turnd over to the 5^th Ind Battery so that leaves but twenty two men in the battery Will and I is on the hors detale we will stay her till our time is out if nuthing hapens more than I no of now and I dont care how soon our time roles a round for I would give enney thing to see you to day and hav a long talk with you and all the rest of the fookls it is better than ninteen munths sence I left you and that has bin the longest ninteen munths to me that I ever past in my life and if I am spard to git back to you I will never leav you a gain while / I live but thank god the time begins to look short it will soon role a round then we can talk together in the place of riting Well Julia we hav not bin pade of yet but we will be pade of in a bout two weaks So you nedent send me enney munney well I must cum to a close for this time pray for me that I ma live faithful til deth yours truley from

a loving husben to a loving

wife rite soon              rite soon and often

J W M^cMullen to a loving

wife

            J A M^cMullen

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