Pioneer Corps 3rd Divsn 15th A.C. 
Huntsville Ala June 4th 1864 
    Dear Lucinda 
I Sit down this morning to write you a few lines in 
answer to your letter dated May 22nd & 25th which I rec'd 
last night and was glad to hear that you was well and in good 
Spirits: I am Still gaining Slowly I can walk around Town 
some but I have not done any work Since I was hurt and 
perhaps I will not do any for sometime to come I will not 
work untill I get stout enough to stand it any how if that 
is Six months: I have been otherwise unwell for sometime but 
I am now feeling better and I think I will be all right in 
a few weeks We had a nice Shower of rain last night and 
one night before last and the air is nice and cool to day 
I rec'd a letter from Brother Will night before last I will 
Send it to you  :I also rec'd one from D, Ingersoll noted 22nd 
of May the folks were all well but no news as usual for he 
never writes mutch I hear nothing more definitly about 
our Reg't going home but I think we will probably start 
by the first of July; the 18th is still at Whitesburg: I see some 
of the boys nearly every day; I have not seen Robert but once since 
he come back I think I will go down to Regt soon and stay a few 
        days 
 you say that you have not Rec'd any state money since the 
first of Jan'y on account of our Company not being reported 
which fault I would say is not the Captains; all the Companies 
are Reported as a Reg't by the Col and I supose it has been 
neglected on account of Expecting to Report Soon at Madison 
verbally: But then I supose you need not be in a hurry as 
you have what money you will need and it will all be 
good when it comes I have only been paid to the first of 
Jan'y but I have money to last until I will get it and 
some besides if I had not got hurt I should have been trying 
to make a little more money by this time but as it is I must 
do the best I can; Your Birch Bark letter was a verry good 
Substitute for paper I have shown it to a number of the boys, 
a few of them knew what it was but the most of them did not 
it was considered quite a curiosity by all of them they wondered 
how it could be peeled off to look so mutch like paper: I think  
considerable of it and I will keep it as a curiosity: your letters 
have come quite regular for the past few weeks but sometime 
ago they come irregular but I supose it was mostly in fault 
of the mail some where but the mail comes in from the 
North every day now: we daily papers every day and 
keep posted about Grants movements on Richmond 
he is moving slow and sure and is progressing as well 
or better than could be expected under the circumstances
The Guerrillas and bushwhackers are getting somewhat 
     saucy and troublesome around here since the woods 
have got so green some of the 10th Mo boys caught three 
of them on the R.R. between here and Woodville last week 
they tried to make them tell where the rest of their gang was 
but: they swore they would not tell on their own men: so the 
10th boys told them if they would not tell on their own men 
they should not tell on ours; So the Guerrillas was placed 
on the heads of three barrels under a limb of a tree with 
ropes attached to the limb and their necks: the barrels 
were kicked from under them; and of course they died, 
for they could not get any foot hold; So Bully for them; that 
is the way they all should be served when caught 
Well Lucinda as I have no great am't of news to write 
I will close for this time hoping to hear from 
you soon and hoping to See you before a great 
while and talk over things thats past since 
we parted and prospects of a future life together 
I seems truly hard that we must be seperated 
and not permitted to See or enjoy the society of 
those that are the most near and dear to us; but 
we must live in hopes of a better future 
Yours Always		T.J. Davis 
        L.M. Davis