Tenn.
    
     Pulaskey June the 4th 1865
		      Dear Wife
It is with plesure that
I Sit down to write A phew
lines to you to let you
know how I am I am not
as well as I Should like
to be but I think that
when I have ben home A
little while I Shall get
fat Again you most not
expct to se See me [illegible in original]
look fat and helthy when
I get home fore I have
hade the rumitism now for
A bout A month and it
has [illegible in original] taken the flesh of
of my Boans but I am better
of it now I think that
I Shall get over it now
and when I get [illegible in original] Started

on the way home and
the change of climite will
help me. and the change
of food will be better
then meddison fore me I
wrote to you that you need
not write to me for I
expected to Start home
             ago
2 weeks ^ but we are bound
to be disapointed and I am
hear yet but now our papers
are all made out and
Some of our men out on
A Scout and they have
been Sent fore those that
are to be musterd out
now and men have ben
Sent to Stay in thare
place and the talk is
that we will be musterd
out this week but we
may not get out untill
next week but I am

waiting [paiecently?] and
when I do get out I Shall
come home as fast as the cars
will cary me but you must
not look fore me untill
you Se me comming  I got
your letter that you rote
the 25th of last month I was
glad to hear from. you that
you was well and in canada
for I think that you will
enjoy your Self better thare
and I will come rite over
thare as Soon as I can I have
heard of Some land that
is on the road that is if I go
back the Same way that I
came it is onley 15 miles of
of the roade and I think. that
I. will stop and see it and
if it sutes me I will by
and it will save me A good
deal of expences it is this Side

of Detroit about 100 miles
South west of Detroit if it
is as good as they Say it is I
think it is the best place for
me it is cheap if I can get
State land it wont cost
me any thing onley the [writings?]
and no tax to pay for 5 years
but I would have to go on to
it and make improvements
and Stay on it 5 years [before?]
I could get A dead but when
I See it I can tell better A
bout it. you most keep up
	   corage
good [illegible in original] until I get home
I have Just got A letter from
charley he is well give my 
best respects to all of the
friends now Dear do not worry
about me but be coragous
and put your trust in god
and all will be well no more
this time this from your affectnate
husband to my Dear Wife
     J.B. to Mary A Smith