Pioneer Corps 3rd Div 15th A.C___ 
Huntsville Ala May 21st 1864 _____ 
 Dear Lucinda 
I Sit down this morning to answer 
your letter dated May 8th & 11th which I 
received last night and I was verry 
glad to hear that your health was so 
good this Spring and I hope it may 
continue; It is three weeks ago to day 
since I fell from the building and hurt 
myself I am now able to walk around 
considerable but I will probably not 
be able to work for several days yet _____ 
[crossed out word] we had quite a little Scare here a few days 
ago; there was a force of Rebels crossed the 
Tenn River between Whitesburg and [illegible] 
and it was thought they were coming to att 
ack this place but they turned to the left  
and struck the Railroad [crossed out word] ten miles 
west of here at Madison Station and drove 
away part of the 13th Ills reg't that was there 
the rebs burned the Depot; we sent out 
troops from here and chased them [crossed out] [them] 
back across the River: there was a few 
prisoners taken on both sides but there was 
not mutch fighting: during the Excitement 
the 18th was ordered up here from whitesburg 
they was here two days and then went 
back again: I saw Robert McMichael 
he is looking quite well he had on his 
uniform and Captains Straps and 
looks considerably Officerlike. the rest of 
boys were well I heard from Merrick Rogers 
the other day he is getting well from the  
Small pox; there no news different from 
what I wrote in my last about going home. 
Lieut Col Jackson told me that he did not 
want to take the regt home before the first 
of June as he want to [crossed out] [have] have them spend 
the 4th of July at home. all the Regiments 
that have been home on furlough from our 
Division has returned Except the 63rd Ill 
and their time has been up several days
There was 14 more came into the Pioneer 
Corps from our Reg.t a few[crossed out] [s] days ago Ed 
Rogers and Jesse Smith come from my 
Company; I rec'd a letter from Ida 
and Bennett Snyder last night it was 
the same date of yours the folks were 
well; Ida said she had Just rec'd a 
letter from you informing her that 
I had reenlisted She did not know it 
before for I never wrote it to any one 
in Illinois Ida Said She was mad at 
me for re'enlisting for She thought I had 
been in the Service long Enough for one man 
perhaps I was foolish for doing so but I 
do not regret it for I think I will be out 
nearly as soon as if I had not gone in 
again; the most I regret is to have you 
discouraged about it though I hope you 
will not get the Blues and think I will 
never get out of the Service: The weather 
is quite warm to day and looks mutch like 
Summer the woods look as green as they do 
in July in the North and it is getting 
to be a good time for bushwhackers in 
the south Gen Sherman has given orders 
that no mail shall go North of Nashville 
for the present I supose that some of my 
letters are there yet that I wrote to you 
but I will continue to write and perhaps 
you will get them after awhile 
I am glad you like the present I left you 
So well and I think I shall think 
a great deal of it myself but that is not 
            of a present 
the kind ^ I had illusion to in my letter 
and I dont Know as another one of that kind 
would be altogether advisable under the 
circumstances [crossed out word] if I should come home 
this Summer; I did not think you had 
[crossed out] [forggon] forgotten me or ever would forget 
me but I wish to make myself worthy of 
Esteem as well as simple rememberence 
     I mus close   as my paper is Exhausted 
         Yours Always          T .J Davis 
L.M.Davis