Near Cumberland Gap    Sept 16th 1862

Dear Companion

I take the present opertunity of writing you a few lines to let you know that I am well at this time Hopen these few Lines will find you well I have nothing to write at this time more than I have in a letter the other day But as Jeptha Ledford was going to start home this morning I thought I would write again Marion is about as he was with his pains Thim William Curtis Ledford M.J . Nix R. Gibby will all be discharged in a short time as they arnt able to stand camps and I don’t think that Robert Abernathy will ever stand camps for his legs swells verry bad the most of the boys here thinks that pease is close at hand and I hope it may be so we all can get home to stay there

(pg 2) We have orders to keep three Days Rashens cooked and on hand all the time and be Ready to march in one hours time but where we will go when we march I can’t say some says that we will go in Kentuckey and some says home and some says to Savaney but I cant tell Wher we will go Marion Lost all his thing as he come back and I never got the potatoes that you sent to me and he had Bought me Some tobacco and Lost it But I had some tobacco and some money I got Liberty one day to go out and I got some apples and peaches and brought them in and sold them for three Dollars and forty cents and could a got more to sold by the Dozens so I will close for the present time Good Bye for a while

                                                                                          L F Crumly
To Nancy E Crumly