Camp: Near; Vicksburg July 2nd /63 

                            Dear Wife, 

I again Sit down this afternoon 

to write you a few lines to let 

know that I am as well as usual 

I Rec,d a letter from you last night 

Dated June [illegible] 17th and was 

glad to learn that you and the 

Baby was better I went over 

to the Battery last night to See 

Jabe he was quite Sick for a 

few days but is getting mutch 

better; Levi Noble Stuck a cane 

Stub in his lame arm near 

the Shoulder it lame,s him So 

that he is off Duty for the present 

the rest of the Battery boys are 

well; we Rec,d two months pay 

to day I think I will Send 

Some to you in a few days by 

Express if I do I will write when 

     I Send it 
Things around Vicksburg 

Remain about the Same as when 

I last wrote to you; I was 

Some what Surprised to hear that 

Mrs Johnson had paid one of  

them Notes as I did not think 

She would pay any thing while 

Johnson was in the Army but I 

am glad [crossed out] [of it] She was able to pay 

it I wrote to Baker Sometime 

ago in Referance to it; the 25th 

Reg,t is at haines Bluff there is 

two men from Co. A, down here 

to day they Say the boys are in 

pretty good health; I would  

like very well to see the boys 

but they are too far[illegible] away to go 

[crossed out] [there] visiting; perhaps I will 

get to See them after vicksburg 

is taken So that we will have a chance 

to run around a little; which I 

hope will not be long 

              B…… 
            July 3rd 1863 

Well; tomorrow is the 4th of July 

  which I do not Expect celebrate 

as many of the citizens do up 

North; By making a large Dinner 

and gether together old and young 

large and Small; Maids & Matrons 

and Belles a Beaus; to listen to 

 long and learned Speeches Vocal & 

Martial Music and the sound of 

the Blank charged cannon; 

But we will perhaps amuse ourselves 

                                   our 

with the Sound of ^ Cannon Shelling 

the Rebels in Side their works tolet 

them know that the yankees Still 

Remember the 4th of July 

[illegible] Robert Mc has Just gone to the 

Express Office to Send some money  

home I Sent $20, Dollars with him 

Mrs. McMichael will get it from 

Viroqua and you will get yours 

of her; you will pay your part 

of the Express fee when you get 

the money 
I dont feel like writing to day 

       So 

I am ^ Nervious; I dont Know 

as you can Read this after you get 

it; you Said that Mrs Mc had got 

three letters from Robert Since you 

got any from me; I dont See the Reason 

of it for I am sure that I have 

written as often Since we come to 

                as,he 

Vicksburg ^ you will begin to get them 

before this time; I have have got 

     letters 

your ^ for two or three weeks in advance 

of Mrs Mc,s, letters; 

Since writing the above; The Rebel 

Gen Bowen come out to Gen 

Grants Head quarters with a 

flag of Truce; firing has now nearly  

ceased all around the line: I do 

                 yet 

not know ^ what they want it may 

possibly be for a Stipulation for a 

Surrender of Vicksburg I hope it may 

be so; but fear it is not; my paper is out 

Yours verry truly	T.J. Davis 

     L.M. Davis