Sept 9th 1862

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