No 23 
 
    Pioneer Corps 3rd Div 15th A.C. Army of the Tennessee 
      Raleigh N.C. April 23rd 1865 
My Dear Wife 
I Sit down this pleasant Sunday morning to write you a 
Short Epistle in answer to a letter I recd from you last 
night dated 9th & 10th inst which I was glad to receive and 
to learn that you was well but sorry to hear that Silvie was 
unwell: but I hope She has nothing Serious ailing her 
The weather here is verry pleasent now: and the woods are getting 
quite green: planted corn is coming up and appearance indicate 
that Spring is here and Summer Soon coming 
I have been more dilatory about writing to my folks since 
I was at home than I was before though I have written quite 
regular to you: I have not written to my Mother or any of my 
Sisters Since I left Ills but I think I will in a few days 
I have intended writing to your mother but I have neglected her 
also: but I will write to her Soon: 
We are now Sure that the Rebellion is intirely broken up 
and that peace is now being made and ratified and we 
will probably [crossed out word] get home by the first or middle of July. but it is 
dificult to predict the exact time we will get home: but now 
that we have whiped the rebellion to death I can afford to be 
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verry patient for two or three mo^ths until the Government is 
prepared to muster us out and send us home; and I 
think you will be more patient waiting for me: for we now 
can begin to see what we have been So anxiously hoping and 
looking for So long: I can now almost immagin myself at 
home and enjoying myself in the persuits of civil life 
with my little family around me: from whom I have been 
Seperated So long  . I think I will appreciate a home hereafter 
more than ever before and I hope it will never be nesessary 
for me to leave you So long a period again: Yet I feel thank 
ful that I have lived through the dangers and hardships of this 
most horrible and bloody of wars    where so many have fallen 
victims on their country's altar; and whose friends will miss 
them the more when the Soldiers return home. ____ 
Although this War has cost an inestimable [crossed out word] amount of 
blood and treasure yet we can See a bright future for 
our country in prospect with [crossed out word] the assurance that 
Rebellion and Slavery is dead: the latter of which is the 
cause of all our troubles ____  ____  ____ 
You wrote that you would soon start home So I will Direct 
this to Hockley: tell Mr Smith that I think I will 
See him before harvest in a peaceful country 
I have no Idea how long we will remain here: we are 
all Encamped around the City and we have erected 
comfortable quarters and have but little to do: I have 
been selling news papers every morning this last week: I 
am making verry good wages at it: [crossed out word]   It is Said we 
will march from here through to Washington to be Mustered 
out: the distance is two hundred and fifty miles: If we 
do march through I hope we will Start before the weather 
gets too warm: We are now waiting for orders from 
the War Dept but I cant tell when they will come or 
what they will be: I Supose there is a few letters you 
have written that I have not Rec'd [crossed out word] but I think I have 
got the most of them I got the one you wrote to Cin Ohio 
I have forgotten to No Some of my letters I think this [crossed out word] one 
is about 23; I have an Idea that I will call and board 
with you a while this Summer and perhaps if you dont  
charge too mutch I will Stay all winter 
Well I believe that I have written enough this 
morning so I will close for this time write soon 
Direct hereafter to the Reg't the P.C. may now be broken up 
at any time: I Remain Ever Yours	T.J. Davis 
            L.M. Davis