Pioneer Corps 3rd Div'sn: 15th Army Corps 
   Huntsville Ala Sunday May 15th 1864 
       Dear Wife 
I again take up my pen to write you a short 
Epistle in answer to your welcome letter dated 
May 4th which I rec'd this morning; I was verry 
glad to hear that you was well I am getting 
considerable better of my hurt though I am 
not able to work yet and I will probably not be for 
Sometime yet for my hip and back is slow getting 
Stout again; The wether is quite pleasent now it 
rains every few days; it is cloudy to day and the 
air is cool; I wrote you a letter last week and 
Sent you Some flowers in a book the same day. 
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You will probably: however: get ^ letter a week in 
 advance of the flowers; I have not been to the 
regt since they went to Whitesburg but I saw 
one of the boys the other day and he said that 
Robert McMichael had got back to the Regts ___ 
We have been looking for a raid in here from 
Forest or at least we was Expecting one last week
and we made arrangements to give him a warm 
reception but he did not come for he turned his 
course another direction. The veterans of our 
Division will soon all be back from their furlough 
and unless we are Kept for Emergencies which I 
dont think will be the case we will start home 
about the first of June so I think we will be at 
home about the 10th of June; However; circumstances 
may possibly keep us untill fall but I think not 
So I think you can look for us about the 10th of June. 
I do not wish you to think: from what I wrote 
in my letter of the16th of April: that it was 
through any Jealousy on my part; but it 
was from what I have heard from many  
soldiers wives; and Saw of many soldiers 
Since I have been in the army; It is not 
my disposition to be Jealous for if I had a  
wife who I had reason to believe to be other 
than honest I should give her all the chances 
in the world to Show her real character 
for a womans virtue that must be guarded 
and watched is truly a bogus article and 
not worth the price it costs; and to me; the 
sooner such a one was Known; the better it 
would suit me; I have not Rec'd many 
letters lately from some cause or other I rec'd 
one yesterday from one of my cousins in 
Ills and it had been on the road Just a 
month: Last week has witnessed the 
heaviest fighting of the war and many  
thousands on both sides have been in mortal 
combat: Gen; Grant is meeting with good 
Success and So far the rebels have been 
mutch harder used than ever before on 
the Potomac and it is generally believed 
that this time Richmond must surely 
change owners; Sherman is pushing 
the rebels hard at Dalton Georgia and good 
news is soon Expected from that quarter. 
we soon expect to hear of a victory. or two 
which will more than overballance all the 
little rebel raids this Spring and shake 
the rebellion to the verry center; but still 
we quake for fear that some unforeseen
calamity may befall our army Just as 
victory Seems within its grasp. Yet our 
our hopes are for the better and we must 
wait to see them realsised 
I have no news of importance to write to 
more than I have written to day and I 
dont feel in mutch of a thinking mood 
to write so I will close this hoping to 
talk a letter or two to you in a few 
weeks. I remain Yours As Ever 
     T.J. Davis 
 
   To L.M. Davis