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		Tennessee Nov. 11,th / 63
Dear wife I got your letter last Friday and
was very glad to hear from home we have moved
from our old camp down on the Northwest railroad
about 110 miles from our old camp I have not had
to do any work except to pack and unpack yet   .
we got here last night and had just time to pich
tents and then had to move again this mor-
ning we had to march about four miles on
foot and that is all we have had to foot it.
you said that Lyman had gave you his note
then of course he brought you mart Browns
and Dock Browns receipts so you had better
put them in a letter and send them to judge
Nelson. Direct to Francis Nelson, Ithaca
Gratiot Co. Mich. I am glad you have
adopted the rule to give the children their
hours for study their is nothing that
does me so much good as to think my
little boys can read and write John and Nick
Fulton have promised Not to drink any liquor
while in the army but there is none to
be got anyhow we are going to (be) getting
out railroad ties as soon as we get straightened
round I am well except a bad cold I had
the headache yesterday but not very bad

I was sorry to hear you was sick I dont
mean to put myself in any dangerous position
unless ordered but shall not stand back to be
a shirk. I have not seen any danger yet, I
have not had to stand guard yet. Has Mr
Luce done any fall ploughing yet it is
very good weather here to husk corn.
It has not froze any here yet to amount to
anything tell Arden to kiss ma for me
and send one to me in a letter. tell babe (?) (babe)
he must be pa for the rest of the time
the boys are well except for colds
Oscar has had a gathering in the head
                            [(illegible in original)]
but is getting better he ^ they can keep his
afs. with the draft he is all right the
army is a rough place but I dont hear
any more worse language than when
about home among the neighbors. I
am glad you pray for me. for the
prayers of the righteous availeth much.
Write and tell me all the news you
had better put the cattle in the cornfield
iff you have not remember and save
every bit of the fodder so as to have
enough in the spring. dont fret and
cry yourself sick for it wont do any

			Nov. 11th, 63


good. I had some sweet potatoes yesterday
I am going to have a box started from home
with a small cheese and some dried beef and
a few other little notions in it. we have to
pay forty cents a pound for cheese and sixty
cents for butter and dried fruit is out of the
question we dont get much chance to go out
foraging to pick up anything   I am going to
cook for a mess and then I shall not have
to stand guard nor drill nor do any other work
and I can get from six to eight dollars extra
per month which will be something for us
send and tell me how to set salt emptings
and to make sweet biscuit and sweet
fried cakes. give my love to all excuse
my bad writing for I have to sit on the
ground and write in my lap    God bless
you goodbye  Direct as before. from your husband

		Simeon Howe