Bridge Port Alabama May 14th /64
Dear Wife and children again i have
Set Down to let you know that
I am well and hope this will find
you all well also when i wrote you
from Nashville i told you that
i Expected to Draw my pay in a fiew
days but we were ordered to march
to the front in a hurry and have not
Drawen it yet but as soon as i Do i
will Send it home we are on the
front i say but not on the Exstreem
front their on the Exstreem front
they are fighting now and the
wounded men are comeing by hear
in the Cars Every Day for nashville
we are garding a large Rail Road
bridge acrost the Tennessee River
hear and watching Rebs generally
we are Dismounted and have to foot
it we are Infintry on foot again

but i and Lewis are Doing no Duty
now but looking for the company
we may stay hear for some time
 and we may not we may be ordered
to the Exstreem front to morrow forall
I no but we are Ready I Wrote you
some time ago but havenot Received
aney Letters Dated Later then the 21
of April i wish you would Write
Evry Week once if you will Do not
think because i am So farr from
home that i have forgotten home
Wife and all i want to hear from
you Everry Week Deek Denio got
 a letter from his mother yesterday
she told him that you Did nothing
but morn because i had Gon to war
Dear wife that is Rong my country
needed men and should i stand
back when she called for help
and if i fall in the cause of my 
Country you will have the satisfa
-ction of knowing that i died doing

my Duty and if i live to Come home
we will Enjoy Life to Geather the Rest
of ower Days i Wrote to william Since
i came Down hear but i Dont hear aney
thing from him have got one Letter
from Geor Price he was well we are
about 25 miles from Chattanooga
ware Geo is the Generall Opinion is
that the Presant Battles now going
on will Settle the War and if they
Do we will Shurely be home in the
fall if not before and now wife
and children I want you all to
Do the best you can and be as
chearfull as you can Lewis will
Write Some and Send it in the letter
tell Frank to be Shure to have the
Corn in in time and tend it
well So he will have Some Corn
next winter if i come home and
you must all be Chearfull as
it will make me feel better
to now that you all feel well

it is a handsom Country hear in
Alabama but i have not seen
aney place yet that i like as
well as Old Michigan after all
This place tho is a handsom place
nice Openings all around us
the Tennessee River about 80 Rods
wide Running  at ower feet once
high mountins all around us
in the Distance it is a handsom
Seen and about 1,000 tents in
site all Round us makes it look
like some farry Tale of Olden
times sutch as we Read of in
Book but i must bid you
good by Dear Wife and children
kiss my dear little Maty for me
first and then all the rest
Harriet i have not Written aney
thing to you as Lewis is going to
write to you and i exspect you woo
-uld rather hear from him then me
but Receive a fathers love all of
you Direct to Bridge Port
Alabama the rest of the
Directions you know so good
By Dear Wife & Children
                OG Dunckel