Jonsonvill West
Tenasee, Nove the 20, 1864

Diarrhea [written in pencil presumably at a later date]

	         Dear Brother
and Sister it is with plusur
that I take this opertunity
to adres a few lines to you
to let you know how I am
I am well at present with
the exception I have got a
Dyerear now and I hope theas
few lines will find you the
same I resieved your kind and
welkom leter and was very
glad  to hear from you I was
very glad you wrote I have
riten to you before and
Derected it to St Charles 
and when you get this leter
I want you to anse it amedley 
so that I Shal now whare you
are you rote that you wanted
Amelia you can have hur

til I come  home if mother
Don’t want hur I entend to
send hur some money when
I get some more I DiDent get
a grate Deal when I was paid
before I expect to get som
bounty this time and then
I will Send hur Some and my
liknes I want to now hoo
to send it to so you can
tel me when you anser this
leter will no more about
this mater
			     g
well I will tel you somthin^
about our Sumers campaeyn 
I have ben in some very
Dangers plases but I have
come out all right yet genl
Gen Shurman is the Comander
of this army and he has Don 
a big thing hear this Sumer
he has outwitted and Defeated
them in every spot and

posision that thay could
get in to thay haint gaint
a victry hear this Sumer
we folerd the rebs a bout 30
miles south east of atlanta
and then we fel back and
left them we left Decader
the 4 Day of oct the rebs
got back in our rear and
tore up the rail rode thay
came to alatonia and thare
thay thought thay wourd
try and Do something but
thay got very badley mistake↓
			         n
thare was a bout [4?] thousand
rebs charged on too rigements
of our men Seven times and
got repulsed every time with
a very hevey lose with a
bout 25 hundred kild and
wounded we wus thare too
Days after wards and it was
a awfful site to look apon

we then marcht to [Rome?]
and when we got thare I 
was so lame that I couldent
go ey eny futher so I Staid
thare while the 23 Corps
toke a [scout?] in to alabama
thay was gon too weaks and
then thay came back thrue
some [?] the rigement marcht
up and I toke tha cares and
came to Chattanooga and
when the rigement got thare
we all toke the Cares and
came to nashville and then
from thare hear to Jonsville 
just the day before lection
and hear we give old abe a
lift the 23 rigement went
for abe every man but one
and he went for [Macle?] poor
siley man no more at 
present I stil ramane your
absent brother in the army,
yours with love
	Uriah Arnold