Camp Near Corinth Miss.  June, 2nd 1862 

                                                  Dear Wife 

  take 

I ^ great pleasure in Sitting down to write to you 

again I wrote a letter to you day before yesterday 

telling you that I had not Rec,d any letter from you 

So long that I was uneasy about you for fear that 

you was Sick, But night before last I Rec,d 

two letters from you which was truly welcom 

and I was verry glad to hear that you was well 

one of the letter was written the 18th. 19th of May 

the other one the 17th which Mrs. Burnett mailed 

in Ill,s She wrote that She had arrived Safe 

to her folks and that She found them all well 

I thought I would write you this letter for fear 

you would be uneasy about me when you got 

the last one I wrote thinking perhaps that your 

letters did not get here, we have Signed our pay 

Roll today the officers Say will be paid off to 

morrow the pay master and his body guard 

is here now, Burnett will probably Start 

home in a few days he will Stop in Illinois 
and go home with his wife I will probably 

Send you Some money by him and my watch 

and I will Send you [illegible] them notes 

that I have on Baker Whitney & Johnson; least 

I Should loose them; the Rebels left Corinth on double 

quick Badly panic Stricken and Scared half to 

death the yankees had too many big guns 

for them Corinth is quite a nice little place about 

half as large as LaCrope, the Inhabitants 

have all left the place Except two families 

they Burned Several Buildings together 

with the Depot [?] and quite a quantity of provisions 

Gen,s Pope, Buel, and Mitchell are in hot pursuit 

after the Rebels they have overtaken part of 

them and taken Some prisoners but I 

dont know how many I Seen Several Squads 

of them Brought in our Division has not been 

called out to pursue the Rebels yet; We had 

orders to day to prepare ourselves for a long 

March But whether we are going on South or 

not I cannot tell but I am inclined 

to think that is the calculation 
this is the 2nd day of June and the weather 

is getting Some warmer but it is not So 

  hot here as I thought it would be though 

this is a great fruit country peaches are 

nearly grown and will be ripe by the first 

of July Plums & Cherries are ripe and 

the wheat fields begin to look yellow 

and will be ripe in a few days 

you Say Mrs Cleary is nearly Crazy about 

Henry he is taken prisoner and is at Memphis 

with the [crossed out] other prisoners that was taken 

and he will be compelled to Stay there untill 

we lick the Rebels or they are Exchanged 

for their prisoners in our hands; She might 

just as well Keep cool about it as to go crazy 

his life perhaps is just as Safe as if he was in 

our army; this paper is So greasy the 

ink will hardly Stick to it I dont know. as 

   you can read it, if you cant let me, know 

   and I will write you another one 

   we have not had mutch rain here for 

     two or three week it has been trying to rain 

         to day but it cant rain So Easy as it could a 

                              month ago
Walt Odell is getting a little 

better but he is quite Sick yet Ike Odell 

is Slowly getting well again I hear 

that E. Forsyth is getting better he is at the 

Hospital about ten miles back. Levi 

Allen was Sent away in a Boat a 

week ago to Some Hospital he may 

get Sent home; Alvin Caulkins is 

is as fat as a Bear; John Kingston 

was in the Hospital a couple of weeks 

but he has got about well an 

has come back to the Regiment again; 

Bill Downie is in the Hospital 

with a Sprained ankle; 

I am tired writing on this greasy paper 

So I will close for this time write 

Soon Direct your letter as you did 

before; be a good girl and take 

care of yourself and dont get the Blues 

Tell Mrs Mc that Robert is well and 

makes quite a good Soger 

   So Nothing Else to add this time 

                          Thos. J. Davis 

              To Lucinda. M. Davis 

I will have to Send this without a Stamp 

I cannot Buy any here there is none 

                                          to be had