Pittsbugh Landing, Tennessee	Tuesday May 6th 1862 

Dear Brother & Sister 

I Received a letter from you yesterday by the politeness of 

Mr. Pickett of the [6]0th Ills which found me in tolerable good 

health and I was verry glad to hear that you was all well 

you Said you had wrote a letter about 2 weeks before and Directed it 

to Saint Louis I Received it a few days after after the Battle 

Letters Directed to Saint Louis or By way of of Cairo to pittsburg Landing 

either one will come through all right I have written two letters to you 

Since I have been here I found Capt Winters Son in the 61st Ills who 

informed me that Brother Will had got well and had been back to 

Ills on a furlough and that he had again Rejoined his Regiment 

and was in the Battle of Pea Ridge in Arkansas and that he 

was not hurt in the Battle all of which I wrote to you in my Second letter 

from here: the 30th Ills, is here they have been here about ten days. I 

visited their camp last friday I Seen Jim Ditto Jim Wells 

Henry Pendergraph & Will Curry they were all well and were quite 

Surprised to See me; I also Seen Orla Ritchison; and Capt Shea 

of Aledo [crossed out] I Saw Perry Gibson at a distance but he was in 

the Ranks going out on picket and I did not have a chance to 

Speak to him. I found quite a number of my neighbor boys [crossed out] 

from Warren County in the 17th Ills among them was Merrill 

Landon Delibehs [?] cousin he got Shot on the Belt Plate with a 

partly Spent Ball; Doubling the plate wrongside out; had [crossed out] it not  

        under it 

been for the heavy leather Belt ^ the Ball would have drove the plate 

into his Bowells; as it was it Bruised him quite Severely So that 

he has not Been put on duty Since: Jim & Frank Burett 

have Both gone home on furloughs and neither of them had got [crossed out] 

Back the last time I was at their camp 
we are now Camped at a little Sesesh village called  

   Monterey; 12 miles out from pittsburg and 10 miles from 

   Corinth this place is intirely Evacuated by its inhabitants 

[crossed out] last week we Run five Rebel Regiments out of this place 

in Such a hurry that they left their tents provisions and Several 

wagons behind them Bursting open the the most of their Barels of 

Beef and pork and throwing the meat on the ground before leaving it 

Some parts of our army in advancing in diferant parts have 

a little Squabble [crossed out] with Sesesh nearly every day; we are now within 

about Six miles of the rebels fortifications and our army are now within 

about Six miles [crossed out] of the Rebels fortifications [crossed out] and our army are 

up 

Still Slowly advancing on them our Regt, has moved ^ four times Since 

the Battle. I think that it will not be but a few days until we will 

have another heavy Battle here at Corinth unless they Evacuate it 

which I think they will not be likely to do for they have a verry heavy 

    us 

force there and have no hopes whipping ^ any easier any other place 

this is a verry heavy timbered country and is a Slow place to get a large 

army through. I think our Generals are figureing hard to Surround 

and Bag the whole pile of them; you must Excuse this hard looking 

paper [illegible] for I have to carry my paper in my Knapsack and it gets Rumpled 

and Dirty So that I can hardly write on it and Sometimes it is 

hard to get any paper here and convenients for for writing you may 

Judge when a man has to Sit on the ground and use his Knapsack 

for a Stand; I have not Rec,d but one letter from Isaac Since I been here 

I am looking for a letter from him Every day. Tell Uncle Henry 

Redman I will bring him a live Sesech if can tame one I will bring 

it in a hickory withe [crossed out] Cage though they quite wild here and 

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they Shoot verry careless right at a mans face as quick as any other ^ 

My Sheet is out				                           Thomas. J. Davis 

And I must quit	                              To George. W. S. Elisabeth Ditto