On Board the Steamer Nightingale 
    Off Troy Indiana Below 
Louisville:  Jan'y 20th 1865 
 
         Dear Wife 
I Sit down to day to write you a 
few to let you Know where I am. 
We are now on our way to Savanah 
all of the Detachment of the 15th & 17th 
Army Corps are with us they came 
to Nashville two days before we 
left: we left Nashville on the 
18th at noon we are on board a 
fleet of Steamers and will go up 
the Ohio River as far as Pittsburg 
unless we meet too mutch Ice 
but as yet we have found none 
but perhaps we will find Ice by 
the time we go to Cincinnati 
The weather is quite cool to Travel 
on the River it freezes considerably
at night but it is more pleasent 
in the day time: but the farther we 
go up the Ohio River the colder it 
it will get until we get to Pittsburg 
we will take the cars at Pittsburg 
for New York and Steamers from 
there to Savanah it will take us 
five or Six days more for us to run to 
Pittsburg on these boats and the boys 
will be glad Enough to get off when 
we get through  . I have not Recd a 
letter from you since I left Milwau 
though I have written quite a 
number to you  . it must be that 
you did not Receive my letters I Expect 
I have been Directing them wrong 
you wrote for me to Direct to No 165 
Porter Sv.. but I Supose you meant 
it for a t in Stead of a v. You 
should always write your Directions 
verry plain when you are in a Strange 
place to me.  I will Direct this to 
165 Porter Street as I Supose that is 
     what you meant 
[crossed out] [wh] we will get back to Louisville 
to morrow morning it is five hundred 
miles from Nashville to Louisville 
by water  Direct your next letter 
to New York with the Co and Reg't 
though I will probably not get any 
mail from you until we get to 
Savanah.  those boys that we left were 
verry glad to get back to the Regt 
they were all fat tough and dirty Except 
Merick Rogers and Nat Shepard 
they were left at Louden Tenn Sick 
I Sent you two Rings in a letter from 
Chicago but I dont Know as you got 
them if you did not Inquire for 
letters Marked Lucinda M Davis 
          No 165 Porter Sv.  The Boat shakes 
So that it is Dificult to write so you 
can read it but I guess you will 
make it out some way 
as I have no news of importance to 
write will close I will write again 
when we get up to Cincinnati
I want you to write and let 
me Know how you Enjoy yourself 
and how you like to live in  
Michigan   . I will feel verry 
Anxious about you until I 
get a letter which will probably 
be sometime 
I Remain as Ever Your 
 
Thos.J.Davis 
 
To Lucinda M Davis