No. 9 
 
Pioneer Corps 3rd Div 15th A.C. 
   Cartersville Ga Sept 15th 1864 
 
  Dear Lucinda 
This pleasent morning I take up my 
quill to write you a Short letter 
in answer to two letters that I 
Rec'd this week; one was dated 
Aug 25 and the other Sept 1st 
Your letters begin to come through more 
regularly again and I hope the mail may 
not be Interrupted again this fall 
when you dont get letters from me you 
may be Sure that the fault is in the 
mail and not in me for I Average 
more than a letter a week but I 
Supose you have not Rec'd my letters 
Regularly of late on account of Weelers 
Raid in our Rear: All military 
arrangements are quiet in front: 
there will probably be no fighting in
front for Sometime to come: the Army 
will probably be Reorgansisd for the 
fall campaign: The Regt has not 
returned yet but I think it will be 
back here in a few days they are near 
Winchester Tenn: Ed Rogers is in 
the Pioneer Corps with me I see 
him every day he dont get many letters 
from Elias: You say the Copperheads 
are making boasts and threats what 
they mean to do I know there is 
considerable excitement in the North 
in Refereance to political matters 
but I apprehend no Serious war in  
the North: I think those Sneaking 
peace men and Copperheads are 
too cowardly to fight for anything 
they may talk Saucy to a woman 
or a verry Old man or a Small boy 
but they wont fight; for if they were 
brave enough to fight at all they 
would fight for an honorable cause: 
Peaceism in my Opinion is only 
 a pretence for an Excuse to stay 
  at home: I am but little afraid of 
Copperheads: There is but verry 
few soldiers that I have talked with 
say they are going to Support little 
Mc they are most all going for 
Old Abe & Andy the Rail Splitter 
and Tailor 
  I have not Rec'd many letters 
lately I dont write as mutch as I 
used to Susan Wilson has discontinued 
writing to me So I dont write any more 
to her: Our Regt will probably 
go home between now and Christmas 
but they have no Orders yet __ 
So I hardly think anything more 
about it Only as somebody [illegible] 
  I have no more news to write 
  to day   So good bye 
   from Your Boy 
 
T.J. Davis 
To L.M. Davis