Stationery: A limp American flag hangs along the left edge. A
stocking cap with a tassle dangles atop the staff.
March the 11th 1862
Camp Andy Johnson
Davidson County Tennessee
Dear wife, I take my pen in Hand this Beautiful evening to let you no that I am well at presant and hope when you git these few lines tha will find you all well. I can tell you that I got my box you sent me this evening and was glad to git it for I hante had nothing fit to eat for three weeks. I found everthing all right nothing spoilt but the
chicken it was spoilt and the pies was a little moldy on top but tha ar mity good. I hante tasted the cakes yit but I no tha ar good by the way tha look. I will try them to night the boys all sworm around me like bees. I give them a pese a pie a pese. The box was on the rode one month but I will eat the cakes if tha was on the rode two months. It puts me in mind of home. I hante heard from you in a month and I want to her from you mity bad but I want to see you a heepe worst and I think I will see you in a short time if everything goes on as we expects it will but the prospect is now that we will
have a fight. Last night the rebbles attacted our pickets and our men kild six of them. Our Regiment was cald out a Sunday morning. We expected a fight but we didnŐt. We went three miles out but the rebbles didn come and we went out on picket a Sundy night and stood all night in the rain and it did rain as hard as I ever seen it and
thundred and lightened a heep that night but we all come in to camp safe last night. Tha is a heepe more danger to stand picket than going in a battle (in light?) but we hav come of safe ever time. Yet our Regiment is cald the best one out but has not bin in no fight yet but I cant tell how quick it will be in one but I hante keen for one. I want to see you and the children mity bad if the war donte end vary soon I will come home on a furlow so I will see you all as soon as I can but I am in good helth at this time and I hope you and the children all is. I hante seen James Toalen but onse sence I left home. He hante in our regiment but he is in a bout three miles of us. I hante got no money yet but I expect to git some in a few days but I donte no how to git you some home. It is so fur but I will try to send you some as quick as I git it. I am mity glad that I got your
box. Tom Smith got his the same day. I want you to do the best you can and right as soon as you git this letter. Derect your letters to the First Regiment of Ohio Volinteers Company C in care of Captain Throuston via Louisville and Nashville.
