1864
      Chatnooga march 4th
            Dear sister
             I now take this
opportinity to rite you
a few lines to let
you know how I am
getting a long once
more. I recd your letter
of feb 9 and was glad 
to hear fron you that
you was all well
I recd the 19 of feb
you rote that you
did not get the money 
that I sent fron the
rapids so I sent the
reseit the same day
wich you have got
ere this now cate you
must rite as often

as you can I herd
to day that I could
get 50 or 100 dollars
bounty from the state
if i can rite to me
and have matt
see a bout it and
if he can get it to
get it for me
John Mcomber is very
sick now it is
very doutful if he
lives a grate while
Richard Fisk iS
well now he has
been [grunting?] a day
or two I have been
well ever since i
left now to tell
what I have been
doing to day

I have been loading
loggs we have to go
a bout fore miles
after them so you
see I have exersise
down here I cant
think of any more
rite often from
your Brother soll
I forgot to tell
you to kiss the
children for me