Corinth Miss June 23rd   1862 

                                    Dear Wife 

I again Sit down to write you a few 

lines by way of Answering your letter 

Dated June 5th which I Rec,d last week 

It found me well I hope this will 

find you in good health, I Recd, 4 

Other letters the Same time I Rec,d 

yours two of them was from Sister 

Elisabeth and one was from Brother 

Isaac and the other was from Brother 

William; Isaac is Still in the hospital 

in Leavenworth Kans as he wrote 

that he Expected to get his discharge 

Soon on account of his lame leg 

William is Down here at Corinth 

or near it I did not know he was 

here until I got his letter [crossed out]I he is 

about four miles from where 

we are camped; I got a pass 
from the Colonel day before yester- 

day and went to See him he is 

well and hearty I had not seen 

him for nearly three years before. 

we are camped in the Same place 

we was when I wrote you last 

the weather is quite warm here in 

the day time, but the nights are 

cool and nice So that a person can 

Sleep comfortable .... Elisabeth wrote 

that all of our folks in Illinois was 

well; She wrote to me Sometime ago 

for me to tell you to write to her 

  I wrote Back to her and told her 

to write to you first and I I would 

Insure you to answer [crossed out]it her letters 

She has not Said anything about it in 

her letters lately. Mr Bixby has been 

Sick for Sometime and was Sent 

                                              one 

away on a boat to Some ^ of the gen,l 

Hospitals Some two or three weeks ago 
Elijah Forsyth was verry Sick when 

he was taken away from here to the 

General Hospital the Doctors Said 

[crossed out] [illegible] he had a hard chance to Recover; 

I have not heard from Wal,t 

Odel Since I wrote to you before 

What thare is left of Our Company 

at the present are in good health 

we have now |33|, men in our company 

and they have all been Reported 

well for three or four days; we have 

not made out a morning Report 

without having more or less Sick 

Since I come back to Milwaukee 

from my furlough untill now 

I hope the Soldiers will Remain 

healthy those that are now well 

at least for I am tired of Seeing 

walking Ghosts in the Army 

Care and temperance in Diet [crossed out] [illegible] is 

verry Esential for the health of the 

                                          Soldiers here 
Mr Burnett Started home last 

friday morning he will Stop 

in Illinois and go up home with  

                Sent 

his wife; I ^ that Note with him 

that I have; on Johnson, Baker, &  

Whitney, I. also Sent my Carpet 

Sack and my Watch and Forty Dollars 

in money [crossed out] [illegible] I am obliged for the 

paper and Stamp you Sent me though 

you need not Send any more paper for 

I can get plenty of that here now 

    T Here is all kinds of predictions afloat 

here 

^    in Referance to the probable Duration 

of the war Some think that the war 

will be over in thirty days Some Say 

peace will be declared in Sixty days 

and Some think the war will continue 

three years; my paper is out and I 

must close So Good Bye Sis 

write Soon		      T.J. Davis 

             Mrs. L.M. Davis