No 10 
 
Pioneer Corps 3rd Div 15th A.C. 
Cartersville Ga Sept 21st 1864 
 
  Dear Lucinda 
              I take my pen 
This morning to write you a Short 
letter to inform you that I am 
in my usual health and in good 
Spirits and I hope this may find 
you well I have not Rec'd a letter 
from you since I wrote last but I 
am looking for one every mail 
we are still at Cartersville and 
nothing of note has transpired since 
I wrote the Reg't has not Returned 
from Tenn yet but it will probably 
be back here in a few days 
We are now having our [illegible] Storm 
and this morning it is raining 
verry leisurely as if it had commenced 
for a weeks work 
As the campaign of Atlanta is 
over this Army will now rest and 
[illegible] for the fall cmapaign 
And when our Regt gets back here 
from Tenn I think it will be sent 
home on furlough but you must not 
loo fo us too soon but I hope it 
will not be verry long perhaps we will 
be at home in time for the election 
in Nov: I think I will give 
Ole Abe another [illegible] this fall; as 
the war commenced under his 
Administration I want to see it 
end before Old Abe leaves the white 
House and I think the prospect for 
Lincolns ReElection looks verry flattering. 
Oh I had like to forgot to tell you I 
was at a wedding yesterday: Well I was 
and a gay affair it was: the Bridegroom 
was a member of the 26th Mo Reg't 
whose time of Service had Just Expired 
and the Bride is a Native Back 
woods Georgian of the lowest order 
 has Sense enough 
    neither of them ^ to Enjoy good 
   health and I really pitty the 
boy to think he is making such an 
Ass of himself as to carry such 
a thing home with him for a wife 
after Soldiering three years in such 
a Gop forsaken country as this; when 
there is plenty of nice girls at home 
[crossed out] [that] where he might have chosen one 
that would have been a credit to him 
Though I dont think a man that will 
marry the Refuse trash in this country 
is worthy of a good Woman at home  
But I find that the Girls in the 
North have great cympathy and 
feelings of more than friendship for 
the Soldiers and manyagirls [crossed out word] 
ambition is to become a soldiers 
wife and I am Sorry to Say that many 
girls have misplaced confidence in 
Soldiers who lead a profligate life of 
Debauchery in the army who are not 
worthy of being husbands of decent women
 But again I find that men who 
are men of principal and integrity 
who have enough Brains and self respect 
to controll their Brutal Animal passions 
will act Just as decent here as they 
will at home: if a person has a 
disposition to act mean loving and 
degrading they are sure to do it 
as soon as an oppertunity presents 
itself that will conceal their shame 
from their friends a few [crossed out] [I] become so 
bold and Reckless that they care nothing 
for their own Character or their friends 
feelings; and will even boast of what  
they should be ashamed to disclose – 
     Well as my paper is used up I 
     will close 
So Good Bye 
 
  I Remain Ever 
     Yours 
Thos. J. Davis 
 
To L.M. Davis