Mentions regimental affairs. Transcription: Natchez Mississippi March the 13th 1864 I Received your kind letter of the 28th of February By the last Eavning Male and was Hapy of Such a treasure after carefuly perusing its contence I hasten to my Seat to write you a fiew lines in Reply to it As it is the Second letter that I Have got from you Since I was at Home I Hardly No how to Adress you for I have not prepaird my Self for the task for I had Made up my mind that you Cared very little a Bout hearing from me But I will Do the Best that I can this time and prepair my Self for Better Next time
Mentions regimental affairs. Transcription: Natchez Mississippi March the 13th 1864 I Received your kind letter of the 28th of February By the last Eavning Male and was Hapy of Such a treasure after carefuly perusing its contence I hasten to my Seat to write you a fiew lines in Reply to it As it is the Second letter that I Have got from you Since I was at Home I Hardly No how to Adress you for I have not prepaird my Self for the task for I had Made up my mind that you Cared very little a Bout hearing from me But I will Do the Best that I can this time and prepair my Self for Better Next time As for war News there is considerable Stir At present there was 30 Steamers Pased By Here all crowded with Soldiers Day Before yesterday they were Bound for the Red River Expidition in Louisiana there was 5 Iron Clad gunboats went a fiew Days Before we was to go on the expidition But there was a Bout five Hundred Rebel Cavalry Came to visit this part of the country and we Had to Stay Back and take care of them they ar Stoping a long the Homecheta River[Homochitto River] Some 116 miles from here they Send there men out in Small Squads to Burn all the cotton that they can catch coming in to natchez we have Scouted the country For fifty miles in evry Direction of this Place and visited all the little towns and camps of the Rebels But Still they come in once and a while to Bother us But if they had not kept us of this Redriver[Red River] Expidition I should Not have cared for I was anxious to go on it I got a letter from frank huttun the other Day Stating that they would Be there that they had marching orders when they wrote S General Sherman was in our Camp the Day Before the fleat went Down He was very sory that our Reg could Not go for the mareen Brigade is all the Cavalry that is on the Expidition I have writen to you of the Rade that we made on woodvill[Woodville] perhaps you Have got it Before this So I Shall not write it over a gane I will Say that we ar having a very good t
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