[Written upside down on top of Scan 1]

if you find much in this letter to
interest you you will do better than
I can I have no news to write and
not much good sense excuse this
& I will try & do better [next?] time
hoping to get a letter form you soon I will
stop right here   Othniel

     Louisville K.Y.
			Nov 29th 1864
Dear Lucy
	           Not getting a letter
from you as I expected I thought
I would write you a few lines
I wrote you a letter from this
camp to you the 18th we are still
here with no prospect of moving as
I see we are expicting pay in a few
days now as we have our pay rolls
all out time passes awful slow
since I got back I dont know as
I want another furlough if time is
agoing to pass as slow as it has since

I come back. and that would be
a courious person that would not
enjoy themselves if they have everything
as pleasant as I did while at
            be a little Homescick when they got back if they are like me
home & ^ we are camped right whare
we can look over the river into Indiana
it seams rather hard to some of the 
Boys who have not been home to be
so near and not have a furlough
only one State between us and our
own but that dont help any & 
those might just as well be two
or three for military Law is strict
James Delaforce would like a furlough
I dont know about his getting it
some of the boys find faulty about
my having two I console them as
well as I can by telling them I will
get another if I can most of the
regiment drill nowadays I have not
drilled any yet and dont calculate
to much not if I can get rid
of it and I am good at shirking

I guess Frank went right to Nashville
as I have seen nothing of him since 
I left him at home I it dont seam
to be our lot to be togather much
of the time but I suppose he has
a good place I guess he calculates to
stay thare      we are camped right
out in an open field in Shelter tents
(or dog tents as the Boys call them)
the wind blows hard today but it
is warm enough without a fire
we have a fire place in one corner
of our tent that does first rate
the chimbly is not very high one
can stand on the ground and look
in at the top Simmons & Davis
the Ordely & myself ocupy on tent
we have some rather high times
and some not so high but we have
got used to both kinds.
the stockings your Mother sent I have not
given away yet as the Boys can get
everything they want here I will give
them to some needy one before long