Pioneer Corps 3rd Divn 13th A.C. 
  Huntsville Ala: Thursday May 5th 1864 
Dear Lucinda 
It affords me mutch pleasure to have the 
privelige to write you again: I have not 
recd any letter from you since I last wrote 
the last one being dated April 13th though 
I have been looking for one every mail 
for Several days I will probably get one 
to night: or tomorrow night: I am as 
well as usual Except that I fell from 
the 2nd Story of a Building that I was at 
work on last Saturday and struck 
with my left hip and back across the 
Edge of the floor which has disabled me 
from working probably for several days 
I can hobble around on crutches a little;  
but such a Bruise is slow getting well. 
The Reg't went to Whitesburg down to 
the River ten miles from here last 
Sunday I dont know how long they 
will remain there probably several weeks 
you said in your last letter that 
John Carpenter wrote that the 18th  
would start home in a few days: he 
had no reason to write such a report 
but perhaps it is chargable to his 
limited Knolege of military affairs; 
he will soon learn not to pick up 
all frivelous reports and write them 
home as truths; But I Should think 
you had been bored with reports so 
often that your [crossed out word] confidence in them 
would be weak by this time; I have 
nothing to write to day about coming 
home as I dont Know anything about 
it. why therefore should I tell you I 
was coming? I have not Seen any of the 
boys of the Regt since they went to Whites 
burgh: I recd a letter last night 
from D: Ingersoll and his wife they 
wrote no new's the folks well and 
the weather was wet was the most it 
contained; Dave is a verry poor hand
to write letters any how and he dont 
try to improve mutch from appearence? 
The weather is quite pleasent not so 
warm as last week: but [illegible] I write at 
ten oclock the sun shines through 
the Tent so that a coat is not 
Essential to comfort: I feel somewhat 
lazy and lonesome and my Ideas are 
Scattered so that I hardly Know what 
to write to day; Though if I was present 
with you I could relate many little 
naratives which might be Interesting 
yet Seemingly of not Enough importance 
to take up the time and Space it would 
require to write them; here I sit thinking 
of home and friends: the War and its 
cause: Wrong and Justice: life and 
its crooked windings; almost at 
one thought: without any peticular 
conclusion on either; if our thoughts 
could be read as they proceed from  
the grain: what a volume of scattered 
matter 
^ would the reader obtain: many 
Secrets of [illegible] persons would 
there be devilged to the disadvantage of 
bad purposes; and more restraint 
 upon 
would be thrown ^ thoughts as well 
as actions: we Should therefore confine 
our thoughts to pure motives and apply 
them to moral Intellecual and use 
ful purposes; for while the mind is 
Employed in disgesting Evil thoughts 
the hands are not likely to be doing good 
works; Idleness of mind and body beget 
vice and crimes  ____________________ 
Well my paper is about out so I will 
close for this time please write soon 
    I Remain Ever your faithful 
          Hasband 
     T.J. Davis 
               
    Lucinda.M.Davis