I shall have unopertunity to see him
    write as often as you can

      Knoxville Oct 16th /63,
		Dear Wife
		          & Brother I
shall have to write to both of you
at once as I do not know how soon
I may have to pack up & put out
again we have just got back to
Knoxville after an absence of fifteen
days in pursuit of Rebels we found
them & had quite A combat with
them but we were only partially
engaged with them we had one
man killed & two or three wounded
in our regt I escaped without A
scratch in fact there was no one
hurt in our Co we Pursued
them about fifty miles & then
we were recalled but our
Cavalry continued the Pursuit
nearly to the Virginia line
			        them
there was not A very large Force of ^

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write & let me know what regt James Fulton belongs to if he is in
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it is Raining to day & cold &
dreary enough it makes me think that
winter is coming fast if this weather
continues long we shall have to give 
up Campaigning for this season.
	                  I have [illegible] sent fifty
Dollars in A letter that I sent to
Mother if you want to use anny of it
for cloths for your self or the Children
use it that is if you can not get
along untill about the midle or last
of November when I shall be able to
send you some more no Providence
interfereing to the contrary you must
cloth yourself & Children up well for the
winter & protect your selves good from
the Bad weather as health is of the first
importance. you wrote that Mary Jane
     got
had ^ A little Girl I congratulate them,
long may it live & be A source of hapiness
to its Parents.
	How do our little ones get along
are they healthy & good write & let me know

       I have not space to write much
more to you this time take good care
of the Children & yourself you must be
very careful of Dorr, if he goes to school that
he does not learn bad habits faster than
he does anny thing else you must get
along as well as you can this winter &
I am in hopes that I shall be at home
to assist you myself after this winter
if I am spared to do so.
	       no more at present except
much love from your Husband
		      James Dickerman
	Knoxville Oct 16th /63,
			Dear Brother
I write you A few lines about that
Land I have sent fifty dollars to
Mother that I would like have
				       ld
invested in Land unless Eliza shou^
want some of it for something take
what she does not want & Borrow some
more to go with it if you can & by the
Land Borow the money untill the

Middle or last of February & I will
have the Money in readiness to Pay
up Principle & interest.
	You spoke of another Piece of
Land lying by the side of it that could
be brought Cheap I will tell you what
I think would be the best thing that
you could do go to work by the month
or by the Job & be saving of your money
as you can be & I think that by April
or May that I can let you have some 
Money to help you I intend to get one
Piece of Land & Pay for it I shall have
to expend considerble to get up A
House & all of the fixings after that
I will help you all that I can you
must remember that I have got A little
Family that I must first attend to their
wants & then I want you should help me
& in turn I will help you but in the
mean time you must be doing all
that you can & save your Money.