Head Quarters.
			Genl. Hamilton
		   Near Lagrange Tenn.
			    Nov 21st 1862.
My Own Darling Loved Emma.
			    By last nights
mail I received three letters from
you.  You only can tell how I have 
longed for your dear letters. I th-
ought it very very strange that my
Emma did not write to her Own
Mark.    But dearly Loved Emma
I did not for one moment
doubt your constancy. No. Dear
One. On the contrary I feared
you were sick. I was much afraid
my Promised Emma was not able
to write to me. We have been so
much upon the march Since
leaving Corinth that I Could 
not write to Any One. However
I wrote you some time since
which letter you had not
received when your last was
written.
	      But Darling Sweet Emma

With what a thrill of Pleasure
did I break open those letters.
   With what joy did I read
them _ and reread them. Yes
and then lay until after 12. oclock
wide awake. thinking of Dear
Dear Emma.
	         Loved Emma
I can assure you my Love
increases Every day. You are
dearer to me today than when
we parted at your Mothers gate
	Emma if you love me as
Dearly &. Devotedly. As I do you
an assurance of my true love
thrills you with Joy.
		        I never [view?]
fair [illegible in original] face but I think of
my Emma. How sweet you were
that night dearest. How inocent.
How Lovely to Marks view. I could
hardly bear to quit your side
     But the stearn duties of life
called me away from her
I loved so dear. and I was
so proud to see you exhibit
such noble traits of character
in parting.  But time

     with its ceaseless [wing?] will
soon carry me beyond the
limits of my enlistment then
we shall meet &. I am sure
it will be a happy meeting.
 	Why Dearest I am surp-
-rised that the Citizens of Chickaming
(Some of them) Should know so 
much (So little) of Mark D.
Flower's history. In the first
place I never informed any
Person in Chickaming of
any of my History except your-
-self. And if any of the boys
had told any of the Citizens of
Chickaming any such thing
I should have known it.
  	One part of the story is
true. I have a rich Uncle
who lives in Aurora I am
a favorite of his &. he will
do any thing for Mark for
he thinks him about right. this
dear Emma I tell you _ but
never have told any one else
about it.
	This Uncles name is
Wm C. Hawkins. and is one of 

principal Partners of the Firm 
of Goodwin Gowdy &. Co.
			      So you
can easily see that my friends
in Chickaming Knew less
of my history than they
imagined.	
	      I received a letter
from my Uncle a few mor-
ning's since in which he stated
that they missed me in
Michigan. Thinks I to myself
there is another who misses
Mark too. Am I not right?
	Farther than that I have
Father Mother Sisters three.
Which you dear Emma
can inform them if you
wish. I must confess my
self very much surprised
at the Conduct of Miss Josie.
	If I were to pass my op-
-inion upon the subject I
would say It was far
from Honorable. her [illegible in original]
to say nothing about reading 
the letter.
	      I think had they