Oct 20th 1862 
Camp Near Corinth Miss 
          Dear Wife	 
I Rec,d your letter [illegible] day before yesterday 
dated Oct 5th it found me as well as  
usual and I hope this may find you 
well I was Sorry to hear that your health 
             So 
was not ^ good as it has been; It is nothing 
more than Natural that you may Expect to 
Experiance Some Illness but you Should 
be very careful of your health as I have 
cautioned you before; mutch depends on 
the care you take of yourself and if people 
wish to laugh at you let them laugh if 
they have nothing else to do and it does 
them any good. Old folks Should give  
[crossed out] [Should give] good advice Rather than Repre 
mand infirmities; you Should never 
do wrong because other folks wish you to 
[Written upside down - a Ribon from Rebeldom] 
we have moved camp about a mile and 
[Written upside down – Ribon [crossed out] [just] So you can tell them you have] 
a half Since I wrote you last all is 
[Written upside down - I will Send you a piece of Sesesh] 
quiet about Corinth now I do not know 
how long we will Remain here 
    war is uncertain we may Stay here 
a month or two and again we may 
be called out on a march in a few days 
Since writing the above I Rec,d another 
letter from you dat Oct 12th I am glad to 
learn that your health is better; you 
Seemed uneasy [crossed out] [about] the Corinth Battle 
I thought you would be I wrote as soon 
as I could So you Know before this that 
I was not killed I have wrote you two 
letters Since the Battle; or Rather one and 
a piece; The weather is quite pleasant 
here at the present though Rather too 
warm in the Middle of the day the nights  
are quite col we had a light frost last 
night the first frost I have Seen Since 
I left St Louis the first of April last 
I have Just wrote a letter to Burnett I 
thought perhaps he might have wrote to 
me and the letter never come through 
I Believe I forgot to tell you in my  
other letter that my Brother William 
was taken prisoner in a Battle in East
Tennessee Sometime ago he was 
paroled and was at Nashville 
when I heard from him last, I do not 
know whether he was in the late Battle 
in Kentucky or not.  I think that the 
Lacrosse Battery is with Gen Morgan I See 
from the papers [crossed out] [illegible] that he has left Cumb 
erland Gap in a north Easterly Direction 
Towards Portsmouth Ohio I think you 
will hear from them Soon . I was Sorry to 
learn that Hariet was So unwell and 
hope her Illness will not continue long 
And that her Portables will Soon Regain 
their original running Order I hope She 
will Remain in Wis until I get Back I 
hope I Shall [crossed out] [illegible] get home by next April 
I think this war [crossed out] [illegible] will take a turn 
this winter it is getting to be too large 
a thing to last a great while without 
disgrace both to the North and South 
the South has a mutch larger force than the 
people in the north Generally Supose and 
are not So Easily Starved out as is so mutch 
          [crossed out] [illegible] talked of 
and the Rebels have the advantage 
of us in many Respects we have to open 
Transportation and Keep all Railroads 
guarded and guard all forts and Towns 
that we take from them while they can 
use the most of their forces for fighting 
It is my honest conviction that this 
war will have to be Compromised for I 
I do not Believe that it will be Settled by 
fighting as the South is greatly [Indig?] 
with the Government and will not un 
conditionally Submit to the Northern 
Government So long as they can carry 
on a war which in my Opinion they  
can do long Enough to Bankrupt this 
Nation; I Judge from the past what 
what the future will Bring forth 
As to your State pay you Spoke of, the 
State Treasury war fund will run out on 
the first of Nov but the State is bound for 
it when it gets the money if it is not for 
ten years, Write Soon.  Jefferson.T.Davis 
Good Bye	To Sis. L.M.Davis