Martha tha say that letters will go the best with out paying for them her [here]. I sen with out the posted her.

Richmond Va. June Sunday the 13 1862
[the correct date was JULY 13 1862]

Dear wife in and thru the goodnes and murses of god I am blest with this one more opportunity of riten you a few more lines to let you no that I am well and harty hopinng and trusten in god that thes lines may find you and the children all wel and doing well. I hope these lines may find the Nabors all well. Martha when wee got her on Monday the 23 of June at the camps a bout 5 miles east from richmon tha commenced fiten on Wensday and fout on in huring [hearing] tel Sunday but not stusay [Saturday?]. Tha wold maby fite 1 or maby 2 batel a day tel Sunday then this regment was ordered to go and tha left on Sunday the 29 and on Monday wee moved up in a bout 1 and 1/2 miles of Richmon and wee stade tel Tuesday the 8th July and tha com orders for the recrutes to go to the compney tha was a bout 15 miles or rite South East cose [coast? ] wee got thar the com orders for the regment to move and we started next morning a bout lite and we march back in about 3 miles of Richmon on the East side on a creek.

Martha the water ant as good in this contry as it wher you ar, but the water tha wee have got to drank now is tolebel god. Our men drove the Yankees back a bout 30 miles to ther you [own] lots. The statement in the papers ses that the yankes ses tha lost 80 thousan and we lost 25 thousan. Now you may think that is too god [good] , well it look like it is too god but ther must be sumthin of it or elce tha wold not have run back so fur as tha a did. Out [our] men got just eny amount of things from ther camps wher they have to run and leave. Martha things is th hist [highest] in this contry that I has ever I seen in my life. A chicken the sise of you biggest ones when I left home is bringing fro 100 to 125 cents a peas [piece], butter 150 cents eggs 100 dosen, sheep 375 sents a quarter. That makes 15 dollars a hed and the sheaps liver seles for 50 sents a peas as big as a bottom of a plate her sells for 50 sents. A ginger cake the sise that I bot in gorgia at 5 sents seles her at 20 sents. Martha wee draw flour and bacon and crackers & salt & sops & peas & rise [rice] & wee have drawd shuger one time & molasses one time & vinegrter one time & whiskey 11 times & dride appel one time. I have had plenty to eateonly when we went down younder and back them too days. Martha you have hurd a heap talk a bout Richmon and it is a great plase to see shore nuf. It is worth seeing. This is a grate contry shore nuf. Here is good land in this contry and it is a level contry, but this contry is very ny ruend. Her is lots of houses and farmes wher the famles has left and gon. This is a distesing time a mong human being, but I hope that it wont last long but I cant tel nothen a bout it. Martha I want you to rite to me how the sheap is coming on whether tha ar all thar or not. Ther is 32 at hom in all. Rite whather John Dove tuck that one or not and what you got for it. Rite how the hogs looks for it will be a sattisfaction to me to her [hear] how thing is coming on. Tel Alford to ask Dock Bond if that sheap is at his hous . That blak on and if it is sel it to him. Martha rite how the garden looks if you have got a good garden or not. Rite how the potatoes patches looks. Whether you got the groun all planted out in yames [yams] or not. Rite hoo hiled them out for you or whether you don it or not. Rite hoo stays with you and rite all the nuse that you can a bout ever thing. I will comence another leafe