Jackson Miss March 1st / 63
Dear Companion
I imbrace the present opportunity writing to inform you that I am not well But
feel much Better then I have Been I have Been verry Bad off But have got a good stumick to
Eat at this time and hope that I will soon Bee well a gain so I can get Back to the
Regment a gain for I have got tired the hospatal for the 4th of this month I have Been in
the hospatal three months and no chance of getin a furlow at this time as I no of the
docktor promised me he would try for me a furlow But he still lets it a Lone so I fear
that I will not get it at all
(pg 2) There was one man in this hospatal that got a furlow this last week His
mother come after him he lived twelve miles below Gainesville in Georgia but he could not
get it for only twenty days but I will put up with one Just Long Enough to get home and
have it prolonged after I get there for I have stade in the hospatal untell I have got so
home sick that I will start on most any sort of a showing so I could get home I have not
got no Letter from you But one Since I come to the Mississippi But I have Been looking for
one and would be Glad to hear from you and hear whear you had mooved too as I heard you
was going to moove
(pg 3) below Mount yonah but never heard whear you had mooved too I think that
if I was at home a while I would get well when I could get some irish potatoes cabage
Salet and pickels and milk to eat I would get fat a gain for I am verry pore at this time
and I am so weak that I can hardly get up the stares to my room But if I have good luck I
shall Rise with it yet I don’t think that I will weigh more at this time then 125 or
130 pounds But have got a good appatite So it look like I would mend from now on if I have
no Back Set I have not herde from the Regment since I came here 18 Days a go they was a
good many Sick at that time
(pg 4) I want you to write as often as you can and Excuse me for not writing
oftener for I have been so bad off that I could not write and I am so nurvious that I
don’t Know whether you can Read this or not but it the Best I can do Write and Direct
to Jackson Miss Blind Assilem hospatal and with all the News so I will come to a close by
sineing my self your Husband untell Death
L F Crumly
To Nancy E. Crumly
