No 24
         Nashville Apr 24th 
    Sister Emma
              Good Morning
How do you do this morn
-ing. I feel tip top
I read your welcome
letter no. 21 last Tuesday
night the first and
only one I have had
since we have been
here. I have been to
murfreesbore three times
Jerrie has gone today.
I was glad to hear
that you [crossed out] [were] are gain-
-ing and hope you will
keep doing so until you
are as well as you
was a year ago last
Febuary I hope you will
be well enough to go
to school this fall
but I do not see 
much prospect of my
being there to go with
you I reckon the only
school that I go to
will be the school of 
the soldiers. Some of the
boys think different
some of them think
that we shal be at
at home before another
winter but I cant see
it so but who cares
as long as as we are
well and have as good
fare as we have now I
weigh the most now
that I ever did.
I should think you
thought more and
more of Em .W. every
time she comes to
see you by the way
you write. 
It was rather bad
for [illegible] to loose her
baby. It is most
drill time and if
I do not close I
shal not get this 
in this mail write
soon and oblige your
brother J.W.