Vicksburg. Miss: July; 10th 1863 
 
                             Dear Wife 

     I Sit down this morning to write 

  you a few lines in answer to your letter 

dated June 22nd which I Rec,d last night 

I was verry glad to hear from you and  

to hear that your health was improving 

I am as well as usual, though not 

Stout; there is mutch of the time that 

I am not really able to do duty but 

Still I do it: I am again troubled  

with Nerviousness and Dyspepsia 

this Summer; though not dangerous 

it is verry disagreeable; Sometimes 

it is dificult for me to write with 

any degree of decency; However by 

taking care of myself I succeed in 

getting along tolerable well; The wether 

is quite warm yet; and we cannot 

expect any more cool wether until 

September 
I have not Seen Jabez Since I wrote 

before but Levi Noble was over here 

the other day and said he was getting 

well rapidly; Capt Layne is quite 

unwell he is run down with Chronic 

Diarrhea he thinks of starting North 

in a few days he is getting verry poor 

and I dont think there is mutch 

   hopes of him getting well while he 

Remains here; Maj Jerry Rusk 

of the 25th is here he come a few 

minutes ago; his Regt is Still up 

at Haines Bluff he says there is 

a great deal of Sickness in his 

Reg,t there being nearly three hundred 

on the Sick list at the present time 

Jerry himself does not look so fat 

as when I saw him in Milwaukee 

I Recd a letter yesterday from 

brother Isaac and my sister 

Mahala McIntire and also one 

from Elisabeth and one from 

David Ingersoll and Ida and her 

man 
     they all wrote that the folks were 

  all well but that there was 

considerable sickness in the county 

Ida Said She had Rec,d a letter from 

you; David Said while he was writing 

that Grand Ma, and Charlie was 

  hulling peas for dinner and that 

  Charlie was throwing pea hulls at 

him So that he could hardly write 

I went up to youngs point day 

before yesterday on a Steamboat 

after our tents that we left there 

in April we will perhaps have 

our Tents pitched to morrow 

we are now camped inside of 

the Rebel fortifications about  

half a mile from town I have 

been all over the city it has been  

quite a nice place before the 

Siege but it is Battered to 

peices now So that it is a hard 

looking place now there is hardy 

a house in town but what has 

a cannon ball hole in it 
and some of them are litterally 

Battered to peices; the ground 

is verry hilly in and around the city 

   the citizens men women and 

children were driven out of their 

houses by our cannon they were 

obliged to dig holes in the hill 

Sides and live in the ground like 

gophers; it was rather a hard pill 

for the Chivileous Belles of proud 

Mississippi to digest; but they were 

compelled to take it notwithstanding 

The prisoners that we took here 

are now all paroled and will 

be marched out of our lines today 

we have Kept the guarded inside 

of their own fortifications Since 

they Surrendered and they have been 

at liberty to go all around town 

as they chose; Our men and the 

rebs mix up promiscuously together 

and talk [crossed out] [and Joke] about the war 

and Joke about past Battles 

    I will get more paper   T.J.Davis 
[1863] 
Mrs Lucinda M Davis  
            No 165 Porter St 
                         Detroit 
                               Michigan