July 11th 1862

Powder Springs Near Rutledge Union County Tenn

Dear Companion

I gladly answer yours of the 27th June which Comes safely to hand this morning and found me on the mend But not well we have orders to Keep three Days Rashens of Bread Baked all the time so if we have orders to march we can be Ready to march in a short time notice I have no tast for nothing I have not chewed more then a dozen chews of tobacco in the Last week But I feel much Better then I have for some time we have sulper springs here some of them is white sulper and some Black it tast like powder and is said to cure any dissease or will kill one or the other the white sulper is as Clear water as you ever saw and the black is Black as if it had powder in it and has the same tast and you can smell the springs fifty yards you say you want me to come home you cant want me to come no worse then I want to come But I shant try to get a furlow untell we draw some money and I cant say when that will be but the officers says it wont be long and if I am a way at pay day I cant Draw untell the next pay Day So I will stay with them untell I get my pay for I am Clean out and I couldn’t come if they would offer me a furlow for all that gose now has to pay half price on the Rail Road you may look for me some night when you Don’t Expect me I will Step in tired Down traveling

(pg 2) F M Crumly writes that you and Emily has a very good crop for your chance I am glad to hear you are making a good crop for I fear I wont be with you next year for I Don’t see much prospect of pease as some of the boys does some of them says that pease will be made in Less three months but I hear Lincoln has called out three hundred thousand more troops and that Don’t look much like pease to me But I wish how soon it may be made for I want to be at one time more and I shall come as soon as I can But don’t know when that will be I want you to get some wool so you can make me some Janes when I come while I stay with you for I don’t intend to take no more of the sort of cloths I got before I have wore out the pants drawd and throwd them a way So I have no pants But what I brought with me from home our officers says that we will Draw our pay in a few days and as soon as I can get a furlow after I Draw I shall come you may make you Red yams grown fast so I can get a mess when I come I got a few Lines from J C Crumly to Day that was wrote the 7th June and they was all well then and he said that he would send me a receipt to make sugar or he would send it to you in time make it this fall I hear that Champ Ferguson is making up a union Company on moss Creek if that is so I want to know what has Become of the home garde so I must come to a close for this time Direct to Knoxville So no more But Remains your Husband untell Death           L F Crumly

To Nancy E Crumly