Milwaukee Saturday March 29th 1862
				
				Dear Wife
I Rec,d your letter yesterday By Mr Burnett
he Returned yesterday noon I have been 
quite unwell ever Since Burnett went
home [illegible] with a cold and quite a bad
cough though I am getting Some better
and I think I [crossed out] [I] will get Entirely over
it when we leave here we are going to Start
for St. Louis to morrow morning [torn]
now packing our traps preparatory to
a march for the cars I should been glad
gone home again before we left but the 
expense is too mutch for so Short a Stay
we Rec,d our pay yesterday up to the first
day of March I Drew forty three Dollars
and Seventy five cents I loaned Twenty
Dollars and Sent five Dollars to Charlie

in Illinois and paid Eight
Dollars for my Railroad pass when
I went home on a furlough I will
Send you five Dollars and I will have
a bout four Dollars left if you need
the five Dollars use it and if not you
can keep it the Bank will not Break
Burnett Said that you had Sent to
Madison for your State pay I hope you
will get it without any trouble if we
Save our money as well as we can we
may have Some to Start with when I get
Back from the war though I want you to 
live comfortable I think you had better
[torn] up all of that [illegible] of Buchanans [?] if he
has any goods that you can make use of
there was a man came into our camp yester
day By the name of [crossed out] Perkins he was just
from Marshall Michigan from a visit he was
acquainted with Harriet & Susan he came &
hunted me up by their Request he Said they
wanted [crossed out] you to to come out there as usual
I will write to to Harriet and Susan as they

	turn upside down & Read

Requested me to do so on this other half sheet I will
send it to you and you can tear it off and send
it to them as I dont know how to Direct it to them
Perkins said he married his wife in Marshall
and that she and Susan & Hariet old friends
you said that you wanted to tell me something
that you did not like to write I suppose that
is all the way you can tell me anything [torn]
Sometime to come if you want to tell me
anything it will be perfectly safe in a letter
and if I don't choose to keep I can burn it
I cant immagine what it is unless [crossed out] [that]
that furlough was too long that you read
about in that letter I sent you
Send your next letter to St Louis Mo 18th Regt
Wis Vol Company C.		Thomas J. Davis
To 	Lucinda S. [?] Davis

[1862] 
 
Mrs Lucinda . M. Davis  
              Hockley 
                         Vernon ; Co  
                            Wisconsin