October 7th 1862
 	Dear sister    I hardly know what
   to write to you it has been so long
since I have heard from any of you at
home but I will tell you what I am
about at present I am on my back
but dont expect to be there a great
while longer I feel prety well now
I am in Louisville now I dont know
how much longer we shal have to stay
here when you write tell me how
will is & if he is as funny as ever
I should like to see you all & I hope
it will not be long first the south
has sent peace oficers to washington
& times seem more favorable now
than ever acording to the papers I
saw a paper yesterday it sed that
an army of ten thousand could
march through [texas?] & by the time
it got through it would be twice as larg
as when it started

there are somany union men there
I just tell you how I like it here
it is a verry pleasan out here I
think but ther is no place like
home when a person is sick we have
bred and meat & sometimes a litle cofee
that is all we have to eat here there
are lots of nigars here it looks
strange to me to see evry man
here has a revolver and [durk?] with him
there are men here with their eyesv &
                                            shot out
armes & finger of it is a dreadful thing
    of
our men had a batle at corinth &
drove the Rebs all out & took a great
many prisoners & a good deal of of other stuf
but enough of this at present
I want you and lew to write to
me direct to me Park barax Louisville
Kentuckey I cant writ any more now
but will as son as I can dont let
any body see this but our folks
Goodby from your Brother    Gy

Dear Mother
     I must write a few lines to you
I feel prety well only I am very
weak & I have ben very sick but
am geting along well I dont want
you to trouble your self about me
for we have good bunks to slep in
I have some of the berries you gave
me but they dont do me any good
for I cant get any sugar to sweeten
them with sugar is from 40 to 50 cts
a pound here cofee the same eggs you
g can get for 9 cts a piece.  tell Hank he
could pick up enough bullets in a
day to last him a good whill they
lay all around on the ground tell
Father that I am agong write to
the captain and have him send
me my money & then I will send
some home I expect he kneeds it

[Written upside down on top of Scan 3]

and I will do all in my power
to get it for him has Israel sent
much of any thing home I should like
to know he has got a watch it cost ten doll
					    ars

a gold pen 2 dolars & he has got evry thing
he has wanted it seems to me that
he has not sent much home but that is non
of my busnes as I know of tell him &
hank that I think of then often I thin
				          k
we shant have to stay here a gred
great while longer tell all the folks to
write it would see like like seeing some
of you from h home I milk whenever I get
a chance I have milked a good many cows 
I have not tasted of any buter since we left
saginaw it is 60 cts a pound I think I would 
like to get to your code cubard a litle while
but that cant be not very soon
I must stop now write oten
A G & I shall do the same I feel
to home when I can write  Good by
from Guy Scofield