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