Letter from
Leander F. Crumley
to his wife
Nancy E. Crumley
February 13th, 1863

 

Jackson Miss    February 13th 1863

Dear Companion

I take the present opertunity of writing to inform you that I am not well But on the mend verry fast I was taken with a throughing up and throught up Eight days and Eat nothing for a Bout two weekes But my apatite has come to me at this time and is tolerable good I have not wrote home in a Bout a month for I have not Been able to write But if I keep mending as I have been I will write Evry week I thought that I would get a furlow and come home But there is no chance to get one at this time for all the chance is Back at the

(pg 2) the Regment I have got But one Letter from you since I come here I shall go to my Regment as soon as I think that I can stand camps for I think that I can get a furlow at camps if I cant get one I think that I orto have it for I have got so pore that it will take one month for me to get Recruted So I can do Duty I got one Letter since I come here that you had Sent to Knoxville of the 3rd Jan Wesley R Ledford Letter stated that you was going to moove down Below Mount yonah So I would Like to know wher you are going to Moove too Direct your Letters to Jackson hospatal Blind assilam                       L F Crumly

To Nancy E Crumly

 

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Crumley family papers transcribed and contributed by
Christine Crumley Brown