Oct 22d, 1864.
				
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		Stevenson Ala Oct 22d, 1864
My dear I got your loving and threatening Epistle
But with all your threats it dont scare me a bit
I should be sorry to have you come here and
disfigure my beautiful Countenance. So I will
try and write and let you know how I am
I am well and am very glad you have got so
much Spirit, but I will say in Sober Earnest
that I have written to you every week with
the exception of one for the last two months
the longest space you will see by the date of
my letters is not over 12 days So I feel
clear from all Blame I think my letters have
laid by some when on the road, the mountain
Janes and nigger wenches dont trouble me
much So I shant Expect any nods from
them. I hope you will be as good as your
word and not Sit and Snivvle but rise to
your full hight, but I dont want you to
tear my --- Smack off for I dont want you.
tew. I hope I shall continue to receive
letters from the loved ones at home for I
shall continue to write every week if
possible. I know there is two loveing
little boys away up in Gratiot that send
their kisses to their papa and pa sends

his kisses back again to his little Boys.
I well remember how they look and I can
look at their pictures and kiss them
once in a while. but I have not got the
the privilige of even looking at the like-
ness of my wife So you must not wonder
if I should run after some beautifull
girl of African descent untill I can see
my wife again. I think you are very much
favored on account of frost this fall but
I suppose it is quite cold there now. I
hear that you had a snow storm the 8th 
instead of a frost with ice as thick as
a window glass. your letter has so
many dates I can hardly tell when the
last of it was written, there is not
much news to write. we expect to leave
here Soon I dont know whether we shall
go on to the front or whether we shall go
back towards Nashville  Will got here
from Detroit the 20th he says they
promised him a thirty day furlough
but instead sent him to his company
he looks midling well for a person
that has been sick as long as he has
we have had four men desert since we


			Oct 22d, 1864.


got our pay two of them did not get their
pay before they went for they were both
under arrest and the pay master would not
pay them  well I shall have to close my
letter by bidding you all good bye and send
my kisses to the children tell them pa will
kiss the place where they put their sweet
lips.    Good by and may the Good Lord
watch over you and keep you from all harm
     From your ever loveing husband
to his wife C E P H.    Simeon A. Howe

	got 8 more stmaps in your last.