[Written sideways on top of Scan 1]

tell you Mother
she has my most
Sincere thanks
for that invitation
to that supper
dont think I
can be thare
very well.
rations have just
come & I have to
stop writing for
a while
eight more me 
come in from 
one company
to night & are
lying on the ground
out side my tent
we have had
some cold nights
long back
I was glad to
here you had
moved in to the 
new house I 
[suppose?] you will
speak to comon 
folks as you did
before    Othniel

[Written kitty-corner on left-hand side of top of Scan 1]

I have
not had
	    a
time to re^d
all of my letters
yet

[Written on right-hand side of Scan 1]

direct to Nashville Give my best respects to Hatty

	Monday Nashville
		   November 30th /63
    Dear Lucy
		once more I take
my pen to write you a few
  lines I reeived your letter
Sauterday evening four days after
it was maild at Mooreville
you better beleive I was glad
to here from you for it
was the first letter I had back
from you in two months
last night our orderly come
here from the regiment and
fetched me fif 15 letters the
most of them from you so
I see you are all right
I had not much doubt of 
			over

it before you said you wanted
I should let you know if
found some one else which
suited me better to corespond
with. now Lucy that person
I never expect to find you have
all the love I have to give
any one. I have but little
else to ever call me back
to Michigan (except my own
folks I think as much of them
perhaps as any one) perhaps this
is more than I ever said
to you before it is the
truth and nothing else
you must think nothing strange
because you dont here from
me oftener it aint all the
time that I have good [illegible in original]
for wrriting & when I do dont
always fell like it I am
writing this with a board on
my knee and it looks as
though I had a worse place

[Written on right-hand side of Scan 3]

Frank is all right & So be I

this morning I started out 
to find Gust.. and found
him with out much trouble
for your letter told me right
whare to look he is not
able to sit up much
& has been very scick should
think he was a gaining some
now he is very poor & weak
but seams to be in first rate
spirits and I guess will get
around again he thinks thare
is some prospect of his
getting his discharge I asked
him if I could do anything
for him he thought not
and said he had good care
I tell you it aint such care
as we call good at home
he said thar had a Lady
wrote to you for him she
knows more about him than
I do. I shall go and see him
in a few days and will do what I
can for him