June 6th 1862
Big Creek Gap
Campbell County Tennessee
Dear Companion I seat my self to inform you that I Received
yours to Day of the 23rd May which give me great satisfction to
hear you was all well I Can inform you that I am well all But Sore
from my march over the Cumberland Mountains we left here the 2nd
and marcht three Days over the Roufest mountians and Some of the
march in the night and one night we marcht untill 12 oclock in the
night and the roughest Road that I Ever saw and we marched down
a Ravine a Bout four miles and found a Dead man in the revine he
had Been Dead sometime for he had got to smelling we Left him there
it was so Dark we Couldn’t see him we felt him and new it was
a man it Raind all the time that we was gone and if we Dident see
hard time I think we Did for we had But a Bout half hour to cook
our Rashings in and none of us had time to cook half Enough and
no Chance to get any over on that Side of the mountian for all over
there is tories and has Left there farms and gone to Lincolns army
we went in three miles of the Cumberland River and three miles from
Boston to the Union Camp but found it Deserted when we got there
so we had our walk for nothing for we thought we would get to fight
some But was Badly mistaken the Letter that I got to Day I cant
Read I have to gess at it But I will Bring it Back with me when
I come and See if the one that wrote it Can Read it for no one in
Camps can You write that you have wrote me 8 Letters I have got
5 from home
(pg 2) so three of your Letters has not come that you
have wrote to me I here that we have to Leave here But Don’t
Know wher we will go But if I can get away from these mountians
I will Be glad of the Swap and would Be glader if I was out of the
Command of General Barton for Evry time he gets Drunk he gives orders
to march and from what I here that Evry time he can get Enough to
make him drunk but the privets gets none to Drink and take all the
weather I Cant make out what you wrote a Bout the children only
the Baby Could set a Lone and Crawl and that Elick had wor Briches
and Said he was a man But had to Be whipt Evry Day a Bout the Ducks
I think that you Could get Allison Ledford to write for you if you
would try and then I could Read what you write E. C. Ledford is
puney But not Bad off T. Ledford has the mumps he is Sweld a rite
smart Robert Abernathy is tolerable Bad off with his Brest William
Jackson is very sore from his march But is well all the Rest of
the boys from that settlement is well But M. J. Nix he is
at Knoxville yet we have just got orders to march in the morning
But Don’t Know wher we will go tell all the Children to Be
smart and mind you good and I will Bring them a pretty when I come
home and if they don’t Be smart I wont Bring them any thing
tell Elick to quit pestering the Duck if he is a man write Evry
week and I will do the same send your Letters to Knoxville untell
I write for you to Direct some wher else so no more at this time
your Husband
To Nancy E. Crumly
L F Crumly
Crumley family papers transcribed and
contributed by
Christine
Crumley Brown
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