[Written kitty-corner on top of Scan 1]

Direct to
Columbia Tenn
Hospital No 2

Columbia Tenn.. Aug.. 24th 1864

       Dear Lucy
	               here I am clear back
in the rear once more out of hearing
of cannon and musketry thare has been
but few days in the last four months 
but what I have been in hearing of them
and some times closer than I should go
if it was not nessary to do so
I left Mariette on the 19th and arrived
here yesterday I had charge of 65 sick
and wounded to come here to the
hospital got them through all right
& now I am in the convalescent camp
here it is a very good place eough to eat
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nothing to do and best of all no med^cin
to take I am rather weak yet but am gaining

this is one of the richest countrys
in Tenn you can get anything you
want in town the is about as large
as Ypsilanti the county. seat of this
county fruit thare is no end to
peaches are ripe and thare is bushels
fetched into this camp every day Grapes
are ripe I have just been eating some
I would like to send you a peach
larger than any you evey see in Mich..
but as I cant send it I will eat it
& think of you I stoped two nights
& one day at Nashville found Frank thare
I was glad to find him for I did not
know whare he was he has been sick
but is looking first rate now
I am going to stay here utill I get
well if they will let me I am on the
last year now and they will do well
if they get as much fighting out of
me as they have for a year back
I suppose I shall have to obey orders
that's all the way thare is to get along
here        the last letter I wrote to you
was from Mariette on the 14th it is a
month since I have heard from you
      Write if you are so inclined
			Othniel