Sunday 
     Lenore Tenn June 4th ^ 1865
Dear father now having a fiew
leasure moments I will inform 
you that I am well and hope
these fiew lines will find you
the same the rome boys are all
well and enjoying them selves well
Dent Flemings has got so he is
round and geting smart I have
not seen him but some of
the the boys has when we
passed through Knoxville William
Hood & George Ayers is at
Knoxville in camp Ralph Taylor 
has ben and seen them they
are well we are in camp about
90 miles below Knoxville towarge

[Written upside down at top of letter]
I don’t think of eny thing
more but don’t look for me
untill I come and I don’t
hardly think it will bee until
my time is up from your 
son W. Teachout Rome
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[Written on left side of letter]
I haint received no paper from home nor envelopes I got six 
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Chatanage and they say that
we are a going to stay hear
a spell but dont know how
long and they say that all
the men that belong to our
regiment that is camped at
Knoxville is a coming in hear
to day I hope they will also they
say that we are a going to
turn over our horses hear
before we leave that is a camp
rumor we dont know wheather
it is so or not also they say
that our briggade is on their
way to be mustered out that
is a camp rumor that is a
float now the report is now
hear that their is a grand
review at Nashville the 15th
of this month of the army
of the Cumberland that is the
army which we are in what it
is for I dont now but I
am in hopes that I can get

[Written on left side of letter]
me that sent mary sent that braselet no more at present
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home and help you in the
haying and harvesting some
but I shall not bee half a
man for work when I first
get home and you must not
depend much on my healep
for there is not much prospect
of geting home untill my time
is out that is not only three
months hardly that Well
Father they have got a quite
 a story round their about
me and Willey Bond haint
they I have heard of it
down hear and it haint 
has came just as strait as
need to be and it came from
Ralph Taylor and I haint
seen him sence I heard of
it but when I do see him
mo unto hin for he or I
will take a darned good
thrashing and I hardly think 
it will be me if you haint

[Written on left side of letter]
letters the last was dated the first of may it was
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what it is I can tell you
he rote to his wife that
Willey Bond and myself was
just as bad off as Willey
Whitlow was and he had the
clap like thundir wal now
I think that is a prety good 
joke on Will and myself and
not so much as it may bee
on ralph their is nothing in
it and I can get all the proof
of it that I want and if
I can get a good halt an
him as I want and think that
I can I will make it warm
for him he rote it to his
wife and she told Jane and Jane 
told Deal Bond and she rote
to willey about it so it has
came prety strait I haint rote
to eny one else about it and I
want you to find out about
I it and let me now if you please