Cedar Fort Union County, Tenn
June 29th 1862
Dear Companion I imbrace the present opertunity of writing to inform you that I
am well at present Hopen these Lines will Reach you safe and find you all well Two of our
company come in from Knoxville to Day and says that William would get a furlow to go home
to Day all of Company B is gone but 17 men and two waiters in the hospatal we are here in
fifteen or twenty miles of the Yankees and the news is that the yankees is advancing on us
and it may be that we will be in a fight Before Long it is Reported that ther is some
fifteen thousand yankees on this side of the mountains Our Calvary Charged on the Reare
Garde of the Yankees the other Day and taken all ther wagons we got Twelve wagons and
never fired a gun we got good News from Richmond yesterday they had been fighting three
days and they had routed the yankees and Stonewall Jackson was after after the Yankees and
say that he will have them or follow them to main and he was close to Washington and the
Colloms of Smoke shode that the town was on fire it is Believed that the yankees had set
fire to the town and Left to Let our men go in and take it and if our men gets Washington
I think the Yankees will get to considering and make pease But I don’t think that
pease will Be made as soon as some of the boys Dose Some of the men in Knoxville is
offering to Bet two thousand Dollars that pease will be
(pg 2) made in twenty Days But I Don’t think so I have no chance to write so you must
Excuse Bad writing for I was out on Pickett Last night and feel Drowsey and Dull and very
Nervious so if you cant Read it save it untill I come and I will try too Read it for you I
want to get a letter from you very Bad for the Latest Letter I got from you was Dated the
9th June and has Been Looking for one for two weeks But it has not come this makes three
Letters that I have wrote since I got any from you or I did get one night before Last that
was wrote the 21st April the next morning after you got my Likness so I will say for you
to write a few Lines to Let me know how you all come on I have come a cross some old
Neighbors here and I think I shall get a permit and go and stay all night with them They
Live in half mile of Camps they are By the name of Evans and Cox Rebecca Evans married a
man By the name Cox I think I shall go over and stay all night Before Long to get milk to
Eat Cox invited me to come and I think I will go tell all the Boys that is at home to
hurry and come Back so the Rest of us will get the chance to come home and see all the
folks and Eat some peaches So I will come to a close to go on Dress perrad so no more But
Remains your husband
To N E Crumly
L F Crumly
Direct to Knoxville
Note in margin:
Our Army at Richmond has taken Six thousand Yankees prisners and one hundred
cannon and has the Rest surrender so they have to fight or give up
