No 8 
 
  Pioneer Corps 3rd Div 13th A.C. 
       Cartersville Ga Sept 10th 1864 
  Dear Wife 
   I again endeavor to write you a 
Short letter to inform you that I am 
as well as usual truly hoping this 
may find you well I have rec'd 
nothing later from you since I 
last wrote you I rec'd one of your  
back letters this week dated Aug  
3rd. it had passed on to the front 
and had been laying at Marietta for 
Sometime.  we have had no through 
mail from the North since I wrote 
you before: the Rebel cavalry have 
been interupting the R.R. and I 
understand that there will be no through 
mail for several days . to come: 
I rec'd a letter this week from 
D Ingersoll's wife dated the 9th of 
Aug She said the folks were all well
She Said that Charlie was going 
to School: One of her Brothers was 
wounded near Atlanta not long since 
one of my Old Neighbor Boys in the 
Same Co. was Killed: The Great Guerrilla 
Raider John. Morgan was Killed in 
Greenville Tenn about ten days ago So  
So that he will trouble our borders no 
more: there has been over a thousand 
Rebel prisoners passed here [crossed out] [of] for  
Chatta this week they were taken 
at Jonesboro 20 miles south of Atlanta 
there are several thousand more at 
Atlanta yet: to be sent North . 
as the Railroad has been interrupted 
perhaps you will not Receive letters 
verry regularly from me but I will 
continue to write even if I dont get 
letters from you; The Reg't has not 
yet Returned and I dont know where 
it is but I think they are after 
Wheeler up in Tenn someplace - - - - - 
Part of Shermans army has 
returned to Atlanta and part 
of them are Still chaseing Old Hood. 
I hear but little of our Regt being 
furloughed the way things look now 
we may be held until our old time 
is out then they will be obliged to 
let us go home: I have heard so mutch 
talk of furlough that I am almost 
Sick of hearing it and I dont think as 
mutch of going home as I did last 
Spring: although I would like first 
rate to go: You dont Know how anx 
ious I am to See my sis and babies 
for I think of you every day and feel  
as though I Shall Surely See you Ere 
long and I Endeavour to make the days 
pass as lightly as possible: Silvie by 
this time must be large Enough to be 
quite a plaything. Sometimes I try 
to immagin how She looks and 
fancy I see her Sticking the Broom 
handle in the Stove: upsetting the 
wash basin on herself: putting
 Sticks in the Churn and trying 
to put the cat into the Sloppail 
and [crossed out word] other Such mischevious Sports. 
  I Supose they have been Drafting 
in Wis before this time but we have 
had no northern papers for nearly 
two weeks and I feel lost without 
the news and I hope the mail will 
soon become Regular again 
We have had considerble rain in this 
month and the weather is gradually 
        the 
becoming cooler and ^ approaching 
fall season is becoming appearent 
well Lucinda I will close for this 
time hoping to hear from you  
soon 
I Remain as Ever Yours 
 
Jeff.T.Davis 
 
     To Sis