Savannah Georgia Jan 11th, 1865
Dear Wife and Children I take
my Pen in hand to Let you know 
that i am well and hope this 
will find you all well also i have
not heard from you Since i Last
Wrote you which was on New years Day
i should have Wrote again Sooner then
i did but was away on Gard Duty
3 days about the time i wanted to
write Elizabeth i want you to see
that my taxes are Paid the marsh
40 as well as the one at home and if
you do not no the description of it
you will have to get unckel George
or some won els to do it for it you
i think it is the [illegible in original]
see 9 but i am not shure and when
you get all the taxes paid send me word
how mutch that are i woould lend you
mone to Pay it with but i have got non

as i have not drawen aney Pay yet since
we have been hear that i hope you have
Got all the money that i have sent you
i Shall not Write you a verry Long
Letter this time as i have not mutch
to Write till i hear from you again
i am messing now with Deek Denio
and Ben Brown that are Boath well
George and Charly are boath well thay
are have not yet been Discharged but
their time is out and i think that will
be Discharged in a fiew Days all i have
Ever heard from Lute Since i left
him is what you have told him in 
your Letters and the other Day George
Got a letter from the Old man Price
stateing that Lewis was at Jefferson
ville Indiana and i hope he is at
home before this we have been hear
at this Place just one month not
that is Since we first invested the
placed but you must write to me
oftener then you do as i am Geting