Camp Investment Near the Cumberland
Gap
Dear Companion
I again take the present opertunity of writing to inform
you that I am in good health at this time hopen these Lines will
find you all well and Doing well I have nothing strange to write
to you at this time more then I wrote to you in the other Letter
that I Sent by William West He was Discharged we have several recurtes
come in our Company has at this time one hundred and four if they
was all here from home and I hear that the most of them is on the
way Back but there is no chance for a man to get a furlow yet and
I don’t know when we will but I hope the time is not far off
when we can get furlows for I want to come home to see you all verry
Bad but don’t know when I will ever get the chance to come
I am fatning Evry Day and is getting stouter Evry Day (turn over)
(pg 2) you wrote to me that Warren had gon Back to Richmond
But you Dident say whether he was gon as a solger or not and I want
you to write to me all a bout it so I will Know whether he is a
solger or not tell Alison Ledford that E. C. Ledford is well Wesley
R. Ledford is well Thomas L Ledford is well and Curtis A. Ledford
has the yandice at this thime but is on the mend and all four of
them has applide for a transefer to John H. Cravens Company and
I Expect they will Leave here this week or the first of next if
they make the swap and I think there is no Danger But what they
will William Jackson has not had no more chills since I wrote Before
But is Still sick but on the mend I think he mite get a Discharge
but he says he don’t want it for he would Be conscripted if
he was and he had just a well stay while he is here Robert Abernathy
is not well
(pg 3) he has the Rumtism in his Legs so he cant get
a Bout to Do much good we have not had any fight yet and I don’t
know whether we will or not James A Jackson is sick he was taken
yesterday on Pickett with the head ache and a pain in his Brest
and the Doctors taken him to ther tent and I hant herd from him
this morning I send you a map of our army on this side of the mountian
and allso the Yankees camps and you can see wher our company and
some of the Rest thirty in all faut two Regments of yankees for
four hours on Indian Creek I have marked the map as plain as I could
so it could Be under stood I will come to a close for this time
By saying that I received yours of the 28th august which I was glad
to Receive altho there was But a Dozen lines and more blank paper
then writing so I will close by saying for you to write often as
you can I Remain your Husband till Death
L F Crumly
To Nancy E. Crumly
Crumley family
papers transcribed and contributed by
Christine Crumley Brown
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