No. 12. 
Pioneer Corps 3rd Div 15th A.C. 
 
   Cartersville Ga Oct 4th 1864 
        Dear Wife 
              I again 
attempt to to write you a short 
letter to inform you that I am 
in as good health as usual 
truly hoping that this may find 
you well I have Rec'd no letter 
from you Since I last wrote 
Oh yes I did too I rec'd one 
dated Aug 10th containg Mr 
Keyes death and also the story 
of Cutter the Spy which is a 
verry good Story: well Lucinda we 
are Still at Cartersville and it 
is dificult to Say how long we will 
remain here. – in my last letter I 
wrote you that we Expected soon 
to go home on furloughs but the 
Rebels are again Interrupting 
the Railroads So that it may be 
mutch longer now before we start 
than I Expected: It is a verry 
disagreeable thing to be Kept in 
Such Suspence Expecting to go every 
few weeks and then to be disapointed 
every time: If  Knew we was not 
going I would not trouble my 
head about it: I hope now that 
they will not let us go until 
my old time is out and then they  
they will have a good time getting 
me back here again: not that I 
wish to do anything wrong but I 
dont mutch fancy a bargain that 
is all on one side and myself one 
of the party and have nothing to say 
in it: you must not think that 
I am disspirited for I Keep 
perfectly cool but hereafter I 
mean to look more after No One 
as that is every mans Business:
we have had no mail for over 
a week the last letter I rec'd from  
you was written Sept 10th that is 
the latest date: and perhaps it may  
be sometime before the mail will 
again become Regular when I fail 
to get mail Regular And it is two 
or three weeks before I get a letter 
I become more Anxious to go home 
but when I get letters regularly 
from home I feel more Satisfied. 
I dont wish you to get uneasy 
about me but Keep perfectly easy 
and I will be along home to see 
you after a while __________ 
   I have no news to write to day I 
will look for a letter from you the 
next mail that comes 
So be a good Girl 
          I Remain your anxious 
     Husband 
T.J.Davis 
To L.M. Davis 
P.S. 
 Two years ago today was fought 
   the second day Battle at Corinth 
   and the weather was mutch 
 warmer then than it is today 
 and the dead on the battlefield 
 produced the worst oder I ever 
   Smelled it turned me quite 
 sick several times 
Today is alternate sun shine 
 and rain it has rained nearly 
  every day for over a week 
TJ,D