Lexington Ky
September 13th 1864
   Dear Father now having
a few leasure monents
to spend I thought I
would wright and let
you know how i get
along soldiering I am
well and like it better
than I thought I should
and if i have my health
it will better than 4 years
of schooling to me I
haint seen a home sick
hour yet the boys are
all well except Alfonzo
Stoddard and he is a 
getting better than he
 may was and the surgeon

Sais he will get along
if he is careful of him
self wright som and
let me know wheather
you get all my bounty
straight or not and
how you get along with
your work and wheather
you have sold my buggy
or not if you haint 
sold it you get a new
set of wheals on it and
help it with cut
you can get $125 just 
as it is have you got
all the wheat sowed
and have you Sold 
eather team yet and 
have you hired any one
yet and wright how
all the folks in rome

get along and wright 
and let me  know
how grand mother gets
along I shall wright
to lucy as soon as
I can get time but
the rigement being of
it makes the rest husel
around an gard and such
like the talk is now
that we are ordered to 
cincinnati till after lection
and if that is the case
we shal quarter their
fer the winter if we dont 
go their they think we shal
quarter hear eather place
will suit me I wrote
to you sunday before
this when we first
got down hear and

probly you have got that
before now Old John
Morgans hardly went through
hear last Sunday with
2 ball holes through it
so he wont bother us
no more the first might
I staid at Lexington it 
was in a his house it 
was a very large house and 
was a very fine one when it
was his but Since the war
broke out it has gone to ruin
very fast I have first come
off from drill we had
a very good drill we drill
2 hours in the fourmoor 2 in
the after noon so we drill
4 hours in a day no more at 
present I remain as ever your son
W Teachout C. A 11th Michigan Cavelry 
        Lexington Ky