November 21 1864
   Dear father now having a
fiew leasure moments to spend
I will wright you a fiew lines
to let you know that I
was just starting out on a
raid they say we are a going
to have a very hard raid in to
tennasee I now that we are
a going to have a hard
tine for it is prety cold
and we have to lay out
just as it hapens it has snowed
hear to day most all day but
not so hard as but so it
melted bout as fast as it fell
it is prety cold and prety rough
weather I shal bee glad when
we get into winter quarters
the mud is just about six
inches deap and such a time
a marching you never saw

it is slap slap all the time
I have but a fiew moments 
to wright I am well and all
the rest of the boys also I now
sit om a couple of rails and
betwean to fires and I am getinv
 g
geting cold and I guess I will
quit now buy biding you
good night
I remain as ever your
son W Teachout