Camp Near Corinth Miss Sept 1st 1862 
Dear Wife 
I Rec,d your letter to day dated Aug 23 & 24th and was glad to hear 
that you was well I am as well as usual; Alvin Caulkins 
Rec,d a letter from home to day the Same date of yours 
the weather is quite warm yet yet but I am glad that 
the fall of the year is coming around again and ere long 
we may begin to Expect a more cool and bracing atmosphere 
I am getting tired of Summer weather in this climate 
I am glad that you Rec,d that money all Safe quite a 
Number of the Tigers Sent their money by Express before I 
Sent that but they have not got any returns from it yet 
But I hope they will not loose it for the soldiers Earn all 
the Money they get, without loosing any 
you did not write whether Burnett give you them 
Notes or not that I Sent to you that I had on Baker 
whitney and Johnson it is in two Notes of fifty nine 
Dollars Each Making One hundred and Eighteen Dollars 
      Since a year ago last June 
with Interest ^ if he did not give them to you; you must try 
and get them before Burnett goes away I think Burnett 
has acted quite Indifferant towards me Since he went 
Back; Rather too mutch So to look well; and you must 
Make him come down to Lemerick and get the 
Money and watch and if Lowrie will not give you 
a Receipt for it payable when called for in the Same 
kind of [crossed out] [illegible] Money Just take it and keep it yourself 
and be careful not to loose it or let it get Stolen 
I am verry glad [crossed out] [illegible] to think you are So prudent in Saving 
    Money But I do not wish you to Suffer for the want 
    of it; I can assure you that I will not Spend 
money 
^ Extravigantly while I am in the army and I hope by 
being prudent we will be able to live More Easily by 
and by; we will be paid off again Sometime this month 
perhaps in ten or fifteen days; as that money went 
through all Right I will Send you ten dollars more 
in this letter; I got a letter yesterday from David 
Ingersoll he wrote that little charlie was well and all 
the Rest of the folks David has Enlisted as Drummer 
and going to the war; I got a letter from my Brother 
O.K. Davis to day he lives in green county Ills he wirtes 
that his family is well he has four girls and nary boy 
you must Excuse a Short letter [crossed out] [illegible] this is the third letter 
I have wrote to day and am Somewhat tired tell John 
he must Excuse me for not answering his letter yet 
I wil try and answer it the Next time, I dont think 
that the Newton Band would Interest me mutch 
as I am Sick and tired of hearing the fife [crossed out] [illegible] and Drum 
when they are well played But let them Rattle away 
[Written upside down – thats all I wanted her to be more manly in politics] 
it if amuses them Ed Crandell is Still in the Hospital 
[Written upside down - Just Repremanded her for having too mutch Sympathy] 
here he is able to walk around and has been all the while 
[Written upside down - that Her Brothers was Better than other folks Brothers    I] 
he is Rather convalesant I think he will Right up 
[Written upside down - was Sesesh it was only because that She Seemed to talk] 
when the weather Begins to get cool My paper is 
[Written upside down  - I did not write to Harrick [crossed out] [illegible] So because I thought She] 
out and I must Stop So good Bye take good care of 
yourself      and be a good girl 
Thomas J Davis 
 
Lucinda M Davis