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leter number 15 Nashville
Tenn. January 9th, 1865
My dear Amy,
I am lonesome today and I will write to you to pass away the time. It has rained for the
last four days and it is very muddy outdoors. Oh, I would give a good deal to see you today but I
cannot. If l could be at home and get what pudding and milk I could eat, I would feel better I
reckon.
January 12th. My dear, I am still in the hospital. I don’t know how long I shall stay here. I went
out to my regiment yesterday. It was 3 miles; I got very tired before I got back. My company
and Company I started for East Port, Mississippi. The rest of the regiment goes today for the
same place. I shall stay here if nothing turns up. I don’t think I shall go to the company very soon. I have got enough of that.
I don’t know what I shall do. My being sick has changed matters with me very much.
Perhaps I shall never go to my Company again. I shall try my best not to go with them if I can get rid of it and I think I can. Mose and Tom are well and tough. They are the only ones in our Company that is well; they are all complaining more or less.
I got a letter from you last night and I was sorry to that Babs was hurt. I guess she
is not strong enough to handle the baby. I would like to know what you call the little gal. When I
sent you them books, they were all new. I want you to number all of the letters you send to me.
I want you to tell me if you have any buter you could spair? I would like a few pounds if you have if you could send by harvey or sum other man you could depend on to send it
by express. Fill two of them oyster cans with butter and then go to the Reynold’s and get two
more filled with strained honey. And I know as you have got any sauce to spare of any kind. What you send you would have to put in cans and solder up tight. The best way is to put a piece of tin over the top and melt lead around the edge of the tin. And then make a box solid and put them into it. You would have to pay the express charge on it or it would not come. Find out if you can do anything for me in that way and let me know. Don’t send anything until you write me and let me know if you can and by that time I can tell you where to send it.
Darling, I don’t want you to be too much trouble or expense. It will cost one dollar and
half. It might cost two dollars freight. And you can get honey 25c a pound. Two cans would hold
6 lbs. and you might send as much butter as you had a mind. Butter here is worth 80c a pound;
honey is not to be got now, cabbages is 50 cents a head, potatoes is 3.00 dollars a bag, meal is 5
cents a pound, flour 15 dollars a baril. You cannot get a meal of vitals short of 1.50, and not
good at that.
rite to me and tel me if you can send me them and by that time I shal know whear I shal stay then you can send them to me if you can get them started on the cars You need not worry about me. When I was sick, our minister came and took care of me and minister from the First Mich Batery if it had not been for them, I would never have got out doors again. And what little money I had is all that saved me this time. It cost all the money I had left. I may get my pay this month and I may not. If l do I will send you sum. If don’t I will not get any until April. It will more
