Genl Field Hospital Chattanooga Sept 11th /64
Dear and Beloved Wife and children all
i take Pen in hand once more to in
-form you that i am Quite well and
hope this will find you all well
and happy Dear Wife you was Sick the
Last Letter i Got from you i hope you
are well before now i am well Exept
the Dioree and i Gess that will Stick
to me as long as i Remain in the army
and i am also Week through my hips
but i am Fleshier than i have been
for five years before i have not Written
before it twoo weeks because the
Rebs had Cut of ower line of Comm
-unecation between hear and Nashville
and So it was no youse to Write but this 
morning the mail Come through and
i Expected to have a letter or twoo
from you but was Disipointed and
So i thaught i woould Write you one

i have not Received a letter from
home or from the Boys at the front
in 3 weeks and So i cant tell you
aney thing about them the 14th i See
by the Papers had a Dreadful fight
a fiew Days ago but it Did not Say
aney thing about who was killed or
wounded so i Cant tell you but
i hope to God the Boys are all
Safe and unhurt from ower town
and now you must Write Soon and often
Do you Ever See or hear from Mrs Paddy
and family if So tell me how thay Get
along in your next tell me how Old
aunt Nansy and Garrett Tuttle
Get along and George and Melissa
tell me how Harry Perkins and folks
Get along and how the Neighbours
Get along Generaly old miss Letts
in Perticular tell me wheir Dock
Gates is now and what Conclution
he come to about his cow and how
mutch he Blowed about it Give

my love to mr and mrs Denio
if you See them tell them that
Deek was well the Last Letter i Got
from the Boys about 3 weeks ago
and now i must Soon Close you no
before now that Sherman has Got
Atlantia and the Report is that
ower Reg is Going to be mounted
again i hope it will it will Sute
me better and now you want to
no when the War is Going to Close
i Suppose well i will tell you it
will Close after Election the Soldiers
are all Going to Vote for old Abe
and when he is Reelected the Rebs
will be Discouriaged and Give up
i have Seen a Good meney rebs Pris
-ners and thay say the War will
Shurely Close this fall if Sherman
takes Atlantia and Grant takes Rich
mond well Sherman has taken the
one and Grant will take the other
and So according to their owen account

the War must Close this fall
but now i must Write afiew
lines more and ask you if Jim
Prise has Enlisted and who have
all Enlisted in Locke or if aney
have been Drafted and So on
and now Dear Hatty a word to
you you must hope for the best
the Same as i Do your husband is
in the Deadly Strife for his Country
let us hope that he will com out
unharmed and to God we will Give
all the Prais if we are all Purmitted
to assemble under the Saim Roof
again you have got your Fathers
fortitude to Bare Everry thing
and So you must Encourage
your mother to be Strong and
Bare up with the hope that
we Shall all meet again tell
Harry that Grand Pa is well and 
thinks of him often and woould
like to See him and now Dear