Jackson Miss March 1st / 63
Dear Companion
I imbrace the present opportunity writing to inform you
that I am not well But feel much Better then I have Been I have
Been verry Bad off But have got a good stumick to Eat at this time
and hope that I will soon Bee well a gain so I can get Back to the
Regment a gain for I have got tired the hospatal for the 4th of
this month I have Been in the hospatal three months and no chance
of getin a furlow at this time as I no of the docktor promised me
he would try for me a furlow But he still lets it a Lone so I fear
that I will not get it at all
(pg 2) There was one man in this hospatal that got a
furlow this last week His mother come after him he lived twelve
miles below Gainesville in Georgia but he could not get it for only
twenty days but I will put up with one Just Long Enough to get home
and have it prolonged after I get there for I have stade in the
hospatal untell I have got so home sick that I will start on most
any sort of a showing so I could get home I have not got no Letter
from you But one Since I come to the Mississippi But I have Been
looking for one and would be Glad to hear from you and hear whear
you had mooved too as I heard you was going to moove
(pg 3) below Mount yonah but never heard whear you had
mooved too I think that if I was at home a while I would get well
when I could get some irish potatoes cabage Salet and pickels and
milk to eat I would get fat a gain for I am verry pore at this time
and I am so weak that I can hardly get up the stares to my room
But if I have good luck I shall Rise with it yet I don’t think
that I will weigh more at this time then 125 or 130 pounds But have
got a good appatite So it look like I would mend from now on if
I have no Back Set I have not herde from the Regment since I came
here 18 Days a go they was a good many Sick at that time
(pg 4) I want you to write as often as you can and Excuse
me for not writing oftener for I have been so bad off that I could
not write and I am so nurvious that I don’t Know whether you
can Read this or not but it the Best I can do Write and Direct to
Jackson Miss Blind Assilem hospatal and with all the News so I will
come to a close by sineing my self your Husband untell Death
L F Crumly
To Nancy E. Crumly
