Pioneer Corps 3rd Divn 15th A.C. 
    Huntsville Ala June 14th 1864 
   Dear Wife 
I Sit down this afternoon to write you a few lines in 
Answer to your letter dated 5th Inst which I rec'd last 
night and I was glad to hear that you was well I am 
Still Slowly improving though I have not done any duty 
yet; I may however be able to go to work before long 
but I Shant do mutch until I feel like it; the wether 
is quite pleasent now we still have a good shower every 
two or three days and yesterday was quite cool but it is 
warmer to day; you say you heard that Jabe: Calvin and 
E. Caulkins was Killed; such may be the case but I dont 
believe it; from the fact that their battery belonged to the 
Defensive force of the city of New Orleans; and I dont think 
 they have been in a battle at all. I saw John Carpenter 
yesterday he said the boys were all well in the Co Except 
Jim Kingston and that he was improving; I Rec'd a letter 
from Elisabeth and Mother of the same date and at the 
same time I did yours Mother was mending slowly 
[crossed out word] and the rest of the folks were in moderate health; they 
wrote no news of importance: Mother said that her and
Elis was going to write to you that day but they had 
been talking about that something for a long time 
you wrote as though you was Expecting us come home 
Soon but by the time you get this I Supose you will 
think we have not come yet; It seems that all the 
troops are needed in the field now and I think 
that none will be furloughed now only those that 
they cannot hold without; our Reg't can be held till 
the first of Nov; before being furloughed if we are 
needed here and I should not be surprised if we 
would be Kept until that time or until the two great 
campaigns of Richmond and Atlanta is decided 
I was not [crossed out word] expecting to start home before the first 
of June nor did I feel sure we would start that soon 
for I had a pretty good Idea that all available forces 
would be needed in the field and I thought after 
the campaign had commenced that we would be kept 
as long as they could keep us; I still hear a report 
among our Officers verry frequently to the effect that 
the Reg't would go home in a few days but I dont pay 
any attention to it; So I dont Expect to write mutch 
more about coming home until we get ready to start 
But when Robert gets home on furlough you can tell 
him that I will be along in a few days; thats all. 
The 10th Iowa Starts home on furlough tomorrow 
but their old time is nearly out so they cant 
be Kept any longer: There is nothing new going on 
here at present; there has been some talk lately that 
we would be sent to Atlanta Ga but I dont think 
we will go soon if at all this summer; I hope you 
will not Keep yourself uneasy looking for me to come home: 
how 
You dont know ^ glad I would be to see you that we may 
again Spend a pleasent month together but still I dont 
allow myself to worry about it for I think we will have a 
pleasent time when I do come; In the mien time I wish 
to receive letters from you regularly for after I begin to look 
for a letter from you I feel uneasy about you until I get 
one; I Supose that you think as you are all the time at 
one place that I would be careless about hearing from you 
every week but when I dont get one I feel disappointed 
I have always tried to write to you as often as once a week 
but I have several times been situated so that I 
could not do so on account of being away from mail 
communication I was always anxious to hear from 
you every week if only to hear that you was well and 
and of course I thought that you had the same concern 
for me; The war cannot always last and if we both 
live I hope we may yet add many days of comfort 
to each others lives; hope is the only stay that 
supports the heart and if we dispair we are already 
          be 
miserable: how many should ^ happy lives have been 
sacrafised on the alter of fate by giving up all 
flattering hopes for the future; a good share of our 
happiness consists of immagination as well as 
reality: but happiness in immagination without 
reality is a vain shadow: true happiness consists 
in Obeying the laws of Nature; of health and of Justice 
a peson cannot always Judge their friends by what 
they appear to be: how disgusting it is to look 
through the thin gauze of a vain and fickle person; a 
pretended friend: and see there is no support of reality 
behind the scene: confidence nor money should be 
trusted to rogues or or strangers lest it should be 
Squandered and exposed at the expense of the leader 
Well Lucinda I have already written more than I 
intended to when I commenced So I will close 
for this time hoping to hear from you soon 
I Remain Ever truly your Husband and Lover. 
T.J.Davis 
 
To. Lucinda.M.Davis