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the mail brought me two letters
from you yesterday they ware both
maild in August one the 6th and one the [14th?]
I received the letter with the wintergreens in & the one with 
Hats invitation to the scoial I would like to be thare
no doubt but what I could enjoy myself the tell her
to wait about one year longer and then if I dont go
vetran I will be on hand. they say that our reg
is agoing to have a chance to vetran I dont know how
true it is			O.E.G.

	Columbia Tenn..
		September 15th 1864
     Dear Lucy
		yesterday the mail
come for the first time this
month the Rebs.. have had
the road tore up betwen here
& Nashville they have it about fixed
now & are expecting a train in
to day I wrote a letter to
you the fourth of this month
but I dont suppose you
will get much before you will
this [illegible in original] I dont know as it
has left our office yet it
will be old news when you get it

I have not received all my
mail yet it is somewhare &
I dont know whare it will 
come around some time I got
one letter from you yesterday
     		       of this month
it was maild the 6th ^ & six others
letters so I have business writing
to day time has passed rather
slow to me lately just as
it always does when I have nothing
	        having
to do we are ^ the nicest kind
of weather now days very little 
rain & if I was well enough
to be with the company time
would pass more pleasant I am
going thare as soon as I get a
little stronger they have gone into
camp near [Atlanti?] I had
a letter from the Ordely yesterday
they will send an order for me
as quick as I say I will come
I guess that account you saw of
that saber charge of our Brigade was


  true my Company lost 3 out of
12 men suposed to be taken
prisoners the Battery that was
with them lost four men 
one killed & 3 wounded & two
of their Guns they burst them
before leaving them I have not
seen an account of the whole
loss of the Brigade but have
heard it was about 150 killed
wounded & prisoners thar is only 
about Seven hundred left in the
Brigade now I dont think it
was any harder fight than the
one at noon day Creek the 20 of June
Tip Davis was up to see me
the other day he is staitund six
miles from here on the railroad
Frank is getting along first rate
I got a letter from him last
night he is still at Nashville
Delaforce was well the last I
heard from him he has not
been in much danger this summer

   you say that Austain has a
notion of enlisting if I was in his
place I should enlist when I
could not keep out of it anylonger
and not before it is all very
nice to here them recruiting officers
talk after they get you sworn in
it is do this & do that & help
yourself if you can Military law
is rather tough util one gets
used to it    thare is talk that
our regiment is a going to have
 a chance to vetran I hope they
will I want them to ask me to
reenlist     My patriotism is most
all gone two years hard service has
not made it any brighter
and when I see such officers as some
we have got men that in private
life I would have nothing to do with
it is enough to make one sick
and want to get out of it as soon
as possible true worth & merit has
nothing to do withe getting promoted
in our regiment. (I guess I have said
enough about that)  I bet that Anson
Fuller wont go in any place whare
he will have to fight I have
a rather poor opinion of him  Othniel
                  Columbia Tenn Hospital No 2