[crossed out] [Lake] Lake Providence, La, April 1st 1863 
 
     I Endevor to write you a few lines to let you know that 
  I am well [crossed out] [as] and hope this may find you the Same I Recd 
a letter from you to day dated March , 15th I had been looking 
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for a letter from you for Severeral days or I wo^ld have wrote 
3 or 4 days Sooner; : I Recd a letter to day from Brother Isaac 
and his wife and Ida Snyder & Belle Ingersoll; David Ingersolls sisters 
I will Send you the letters; you complain that [crossed out] [illegible] my letters do 
not come Regular: I find that your letters do not come So Regular 
here as they did when I was at Corinth and are more than as 
long again in getting here; Old Mr Moody got back to the Regiment  
to day he looks quite well ; Capt Layne came to us at Moscow 
Tenn on the 10th of Jan,y; I think I wrote to you of his Return 
before; he has been unwell for Sometime but is getting better 
the rest of the Boys are all well, we have had less Sickness 
in our company the past two months than we have had 
  the Same length of time Since we have been South; I hope it 
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  may continue through the Sum^er; the weather is not So warm now 
as it was two weeks ago; we had a heavy wind and rain Storm 
on the night of the 29th; it injured Several Steamboats that 
were lying here; Blowing off their chimneys and Stoving in 
their wheel houses and doing other damage. This is a verry nice 
clear Cool pleasent day; I hope this Spring will be as cool as 
   last Spring was though there was warmer weather in 
   the Summer than I wish to See again 
 
This is the first day of April the day for all fools 
and the Boys are making great Sport over it 
     by making April fools of Each other in Every 
conceiveble way; I Sent you ten Dollars to you 
a little over two weeks ago in a letter I thought if 
I did not want to Risk mutch at a time; there is 
five months pay Due us now, [crossed out] [illegible] There is talk that 
we wil be paid again Soon and that we will get 
four months pay the next payment but I do not 
look for it until it comes around   . there is not 
mutch doing [crossed out] [her] in the Army here at present Excepting 
making preparations to Reduce Vicksburg  but I 
  do not think our generals will undertake to carry 
the place by Storm; I would like to See the place 
leveled to the Earth; I got a letter from Little [crossed out] [illegible] 
John Graham the other day he wrote that he had 
been Sick in the hospital a few days but was better  
the 25th is at Columbus yet; I have not had 
a letter from Jabe Since I left Vicksburg 
   April 2nd    I will close my letter, I have nothing 
   more of Importance to write to day. I Shall look for 
   another letter from you next mail and I will write 
   again Direct your letters as usual and write the 
   news.                  Yours Always 
       Thomas.J.Davis___________________ 
To Lucinda.M.Davis