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Head Quarters. 25th M
Knox. Cou. Tenn
Dear Friends
I now have the opportunity to write you a few lines I am well and hope these few lines may find you the same we ar on our way after the old fellow comenly called Longstreet. We have camped here for a few days to rest and then we ar a going on after Longstreet I recieved a letter from you the 9th mailed the 4 of Nov and one mailed I believe th 23 of Oct one of them had some stamps and thread and they came very exceptible[acceptible?] for I had none of either and could not buy any stamps or thread I suppose you have had the perticlers of the battle of Knoxville the Mich boys suffered very much at that battle young Davis had his leg shot off and poor Simpson I hear is ...
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... dead I was told he was killed on the retreet fom Leenora[Lenoir?] to Knoxville it is nothing more than a hearsay the 9th corp ar in the advance when there is eny fighting to be D[?done] they always send the Mich troops ahead for they ar the best fighting troops that they hav here Charley is well as usial, We hav plenty to eat now but we hav to forage it our selves the other day one of my mess mates and my self went out after something to eat and we went to a rebles house and went to his barn and found plenty of pork and then we found plenty salt we took about 150 pounds of pork and one sack salt and one bushel corn meal and s[since?]ce that[?] we have lived prety well we start on the march in the morning the boys ar all ancious to catch up ...
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... with old Longstreet
David Berger and James Kincaid has just been out to make a raise of a little fresh pork and they got a prety good piece I have not time to write much this time I cannot say when this will go out the mail does not go out very often
afternoon of the 13
I hav just heard that Simpson was not shot that it was an other man by the name of Clark that was killed,
I have just been out after some straw to make me a bed and when I came back I found the mail was a going out and I thought I would finish my letter it sens[seems?] _oste like home to get where I can get letters from home and have a chance to send my letters out it has been a long time since I had a chance to send letters out...
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... you spoke about my coming home on a furlow this winter I think it is rather doubtful my coming home this winter there is some talk about our being called back to Louisville Ky and if we should it is likly that I shall come home on a furlow you spoke of sending me some things it is imposible to send them now they could not get over the mountains and if I had them now I could not carry them far We ar marching all the time nearly I cannot write as long a letter as you do for I have not got the paper here is some raw cotton that picked out of the bur thare was lots of it that the people went off and left it a standing and this picture is of the aslum[Asylum] Hospital that I was nurse in at Knoxville Tenn
give my best respects to all enquiring friends please write soon from Wm O Wells
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