Atlanta Ga   Dec 29th 1862

Dear Companion

I embrace the present opertunity of Droping you a few lines to inform you that I am well at this time Hopen these Lines will Reach you Safe and find you all well and Doing well I Received yours of the 14th a Christmas Eve which gave me greate satisfaction to heare you was all well doing well I Left Ringgold the 26th and Chattanooga Last night at Sun down and got heare this morning at ten half oclock the car had to Run with green wood so we was Behind times a Bout six hours and for that Reason we have to Lay By untill Six this Evening and then we will

(pg 2) take the car for West Point Ala and from there to Mongumary and from then Mobile and from there to Jackson Mississippi We will have a Long Ride of it But no chance Escape with out Deserting and I don’t feel Like Doing that all tho I would give a Right smart to Be at home if I could not get to stay But a few days But I could not get no chance to come home so I have started for my Regt you must do the Best you can and I will come as Soon as I can get the chance But don’t Know when that will Be for it has got to Be so when they get a man in they never Let him out I tride my Best to get of to Straiten out Worwick But

(pg 3) not get the chance to come you wrote in your of the 14th for me write you my contract and I had wrote it one time But I will write it a gain he was to tend the ground and pay me the Rent and I let him have my iron and he was to Lay my plows off of it and then he was to have the Rest of the Iron and the rest that I owed him he was to have out of the Rent Corn which he said would Be But Little and I know it would Be but Little for I done a Right smart of work for him one way and other which I kept no account of But trusted to his honor for I thought he was homest Untill he Refused to pay you the Rent which he was to do I want you to make him pay

(pg 4) you the Rent Corn and if he wont pay it you get Lawer Sutton See if he cant get it out of him and if he cant if I live to get Back home one time more I will make a Settlement with him that he wont Like so well as he Likes to swindle woman and children out of there Rights when he thinkes they cant help them Selves So you must do the Best you can and I will come as soon as I can and I want you to write as soon as you get this and direct to Jackson Miss as I will want to heare from you Evry week  Receive the Love and Respect of your Husband
                                                                                                                 L F Crumly
to Nancy E. Crumly

FM Crumly is going on with me and is well