Cobb County Georgia   March 16 1862

Dear Nancy I send you a few lines to inform you that I am well Hoping these lines will find you and our children well We have stopped two miles from camp McDonnal and I expect we shall go to the Big Shanty some time next week There is some five companys camped here and one more will be in today or tomorrow from Towns County They will be some six thousand six hundred at this camp when they all get in We have had a very bad wet time on the road But I lay in a house all the wet nights and fared very well We all got here safe and sound and all satisfied as far as I have heard We have saw Govenor Brown He says that we must recrut in twenty days to 78 men so as to be received as a company and all the boys that joined will be sent after as soon as we are mustered in service I cant send no money yet but I think we will be mustered in by the time N.W. Jackson Comes back to camps he left here this morning to go to Mr Burtons and said he would be back next Saturday and if I draw any money, I will send by N. W. Jackson when he comes home We have bad chance about cooking We have not anything but one water bucket,

(pg 2) one sheet iron bucket that we have to boil in one frying pan and two coffee pots and three tin cups is all we have know to cook with We drew rations yesterday for seven days we drew flour, pork, beef, rice, sugar, salt and soap, tent, clothes, We only drew ten tents We will draw ten more as soon as they can be had There is ten in the mess I am in but I dont know whether the mess will stay as they are or not when we are mustered in I will give you the names -- John W. Sosebee, Jerri Richardson, Robert Abernathy, Tomas Dooley, William Dooley, James C. Allen and myself Write as soon as you can and let me know how you are all getting long Direct you letters to Camp McDonnel. So no more at present but remains your husband until Death

To Nancy E. Crumley                 L. F. Crumley