Lake Providence 
La. 
   April 15th 1863 
 
   Dear Wife 
I again Sit down to write you a few 
lines in answer to your letter dated 
April 1st first which I Rec,d two days 
  ago and was glad to hear that you 
was well; I am as well as usual 
and the health of the Company is 
Reasonably good; Robert Mc Recd 
a letter from home the Same date of 
yours his wife had Rec,d his money 
that he Sent in March, but you had not 
Rec,d the letter yet that I Sent the Ten 
Dollars in on the 14th of March but you 
had Rec,d the one next to it 
[Written upside down on top of Scan 2] 
 
I am out of Stamps 
 
[End] 
 
So I Supose you have it before now 
in my last I wrote you that I had 
Started you Ten Dollars more in a letter 
and Sixty Dollars per Express; you will 
perhaps get the Ten in the letter first as 
the Money that I Expressed did not 
leave here until yesterday; as I Said 
before the Sixty Dollars was Directed to 
Mrs. McMichael and you will get it of her 
and pay your part of the Express charges 
I wrote to you before; that I Sent  
Some clothing home by Express I have 
heard Since we Started the box that 
it was stoped on the [crossed out] [y] way and was 
not permitted to go through, this may 
be true and it may not; but I do not 
think the authorities had any right 
to Stop it after the Express Co Receipts 
for it; but if it goes through you will 
get it and if it dont, it is gone up 
and that is all there is about it 
you wrote that Baker could not pay 
them Notes until June; if he cannot 
Easily get the Money now and will pay  
it in June I have no objections to wait 
but when it is paid be sure and reckon 
up the Interest; If I was in your place 
I would not Loan any money to any 
body unless it would be for a verry chari 
table purpose to friends in want; for if 
I Should come home and wish to use it 
it would probably be more trouble to 
collect loned money than the Interest 
would be worth; and perhaps in Some  
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cases not get it at all; it is verry deficu^ 
to know who to trust Especially Strangers 
I was Sworn in for three years unless 
Sooner discharged and not During 
the war; though I do not think the 
war will last the three years out 
there is no [crossed out] [w] war news of importance 
to write to day; Some think there will 
     be a fight at Vicksburg Soon 
I find one or two words you use in 
your letters & every time every time you 
Spell them wrong or incorrect and 
also Some bad form to get in the 
habit of writing: I have looked over your 
letter and marked the places; I will send 
them back so you can look over them 
I have nothing more of Importance to 
write; write Soon and Often and 
give the news: I forgot; there is some 
talk that there will 20 days furlough to 
five soldiers out of Every hundred at a 
time, it will require about all of the 
three before they can all get their 
furloughs in and more than that it 
will take nearly 20 days to go home  
and return; I would be verry glad 
to get a furlough if I could remain at 
home any length of time; Verry Respectfly 
Yours As Ever		Thomas .J .Davis 
To Lucinda  Davis