No 21 
     Pioneer Corps 3rd Div 15th A.C. 
   Goldsboro N.C. April 2nd 1865 
     Dear Wife 
I Sit down this pleasent Sunday afternoon 
to write you a Short letter to inform 
you that I am as well as usual and hope 
this may find you the Same: I have not 
rec'd any letter from you since I last wrote 
your last was dated March 19th I Shall 
expect another one Soon in answer to one 
I wrote at Kinston I Supose you are getting 
Anxious to  go back to Wis and perhaps you 
have gone before this time I will however 
continue to write to Detroit until you 
tell me to change Directions; I Rec'd two 
letters yesterday one from Green Sallee and 
the other from D. Ingersoll one dated the 12 
and the Other the 15th of March. They both wrote 
that the folks were all well and they also both 
wrote that Brother Will and Belle were 
Married on the 2nd of March that was an 
event that I was not at all looking for  
Ida was living at Green Sallees and 
Bennet was yet in the Hospital at Quincy 
  David Said they had rec'd a letter from you 
about a week before he wrote; but did not say 
they had answered it. I Rec'd a letter from 
Will. written Nov 18th with his Photograph in 
it: I wrote a letter to Lewis Smith yesterday 
and I told him that you would probably be 
back there before long (That is to Badax) I 
also wrote to him: that if he was not prepared 
to keep you again: for him to assist you in 
getting a good place Some where else  
We are Still lying here and perhaps we will not leave 
here before the 10th or 15th inst the Army expects  
to be paid before we move . The army is in good 
health and good Spirits and they think the 
Confederacy is getting pretty well used up. 
I dont want you to feel uneasy about me for 
I have a good place and my duty is not verry 
hard and I want to Stay until this Rebellion 
is wound to a close   as far as comfort is con 
cerned of course I would mutch rather be 
at home with you but I have hopes that the
rebellion will play out before many months 
and we will once more have a peaceful country 
to live in and a good cause to live for and 
I think I will Know how to appreciate a 
good home if we Should be so lucky as to get 
one: or even if our home Should be poor I 
Know I have a good woman to live with 
which would make a humble home happy 
to me; for happiness and contentment 
is a prize of far more value than money: 
I do not want any more furloughs for I did 
not enjoy myself [crossed out] [while] while I was at 
 home; for the thoughts of coming back was 
all the time in my mind I feel more 
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contented now tha[crossed out] [t] I did while on furlough 
I wish you to make yourself as contented 
as you can: you did not Say whether or 
not you rec'd the two Rings I sent you from 
Chicago: Well Lucinda I will close for 
this time hoping to hear from you soon I will 
try and write more often: I Remain as ever 
   Your faithful husband 
    T.J. Davis 
L.M. Davis