/1862 
Camp No 9 Corinth Miss July 5th 
            Dear Wife 
I Rec,d you letter to day bearing date of 
June 22nd it found me well and I hope 
this will find you in good health; I have 
not Rec,d any letters Since I Rec,d the last  
one from you from my folks; the weather is 
quite warm here though not So warm as it 
was a week or ten days ago. it is So hot 
however that we do not think of Drilling in 
the middle of the day you Say that you 
was visited with a heavy frost there; I wish 
we had part of it down here for I have not 
Seen any frost Since I left St Louis. I do 
not like to freeze mutch but I believe I 
would rather bear considerable cold weather 
than to  Suffer So mutch heat; this is 
the day after the fourth I Supose you 
Badax folks made a grand Demonstration 
yesterday in Celibrating the 4th. I Supose 
that you would like to know how we Spent 
 
the 4th Down here in Dixie well I will 
tell you; At day light ther was a Salute 
in Each Division which lasted for over an 
hour. then again at 12;Oclock the Batteries 
of Each Brigade was Drawn out in line of 
Battle and a Salute of 34 guns was fired 
from Each Battery of which we have a 
large number here, and they are Scattered 
over a larg Scope of country; the thundering 
      Really 
peels of the canon Sounded ^ Romantic and 
was Really Exciting; It Reminded us 
mutch of the Celebration of the 6th & 7th 
of April last at Shiloh; Ike Odell is getting 
Better Still, though he is not Stout yet I have 
not heard from Walt Since he went to the 
hospital [crossed out] [He was a] Allen Swain went, to 
the Hospital the Same time Walt did we 
got a letter from him a few days ago he 
was then in the Hospital at Quincy Ills 
But he did not Say a word about Walt 
[crossed out] I as for me going to See him he may be 
five hundred miles from here and I 
cannot get a pass to Stay over night from 
        				         camp 
we have lost Several of the Boys of the Badax 
Tigers Since we lef Viroqua I will give you 
a list of those that have died that I know 
of at present and the places where they died 
           Died 
   Samuel Swan		of West prairie		at Milwaukee 
N.W. Saxton		Badax Valley		Killed at Shiloh 
William Kittle		Lynxville		Killed at Shiloh 
L.H. Page		near Viroqua		St Louis 
William Starbuck	Kickapoo		pittsburg, L.dng 
Charles Ames		West prairie		New Burg Ind, 
Julius Morley		Viroqua		New Burg, do 
Samuel [Hish?]		South Badax		New Burg, do 
Aaron Cooley		Desoto died		near home on Return 
William Hunter		Springville		Hospital near Shiloh 
Joseph Hunter		Springville		Huntsville Al,a 
Joseph Gander		Kickapoo		Huntsville  do 
Orin Looker		Lynxville		Huntsville  do 
George Williams,	Springville		died on the, way home 
Joseph Hunter, Orin Looker, and Joseph 
Gander was among the prisoners that 
was taken at pittsburg they had been Released 
by the Rebels and was on there way back 
to be Mustered [crossed out] [of] out of the Service they 
Was So mutch Reduced with Disease 
and Starvation that they only reached 
our forces at huntsville Alabama and 
there Died, they was tended in their last 
illness by friends and was Buried in 
the neat little cemetry at Huntsville 
there may be others of the Tigers that 
have died that I know not of for they 
are Scattered So mutch in Differant 
Hospitals Besides them that were taken 
prisoners; I think the prisoners will 
Soon be Sent home if they are not before 
this time they were in Nashville Some 
time ago  Burnett Started home 
about ten days ago I Supose he is with  
his wife in Illinois before this time  
he Said that he Should not Stay but 
a few days in Ills till he would Start 
for home it Seemed to affect him as 
mutch or more to leave the company 
as it did on leaving home; My paper 
is played out and I must close this Sheet 
Lucinda. M. Davis	     Tho,s J. Davis