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Camp Wickliff Ky 
January 27th 1862 
Mrs. Sarah Davis 
My dear wife 
After waiting impatiently for some 8 or 10 days for a letter from you I began to think something was wrong until last Friday I was officer of the guard and in the evening one of our boys came to the guard house and brought me 2 letters and a package of papers. One letter was your lengthy and very interesting one of the 20th Inst. and the other was from Wm. [Van?] which was also interesting. So by reading the letters and papers I put in the lonesome night very cumfortabl. 
You can hardly immagine the joy it gave to me hear that you were all in such good health. As regards my health it is what you might call good. I have had a bad cold for some days but I am nearly well of it now, but I am not fit for duty for I have got a regular old fashioned Stone bruse on my heel which is rather remarkable as I have not been going barefoot any but one thing certain it hurts like thunder but will be well in a few days for it is about ready to be opened. 
The health of the Regiment is 50 percent better than it was 10 days since. And also the dicipline of the Regiment I am happy to say is again getting on a good and honorable footing again. The officers (some of them) wanted to get a furlough and could not so they thought that by playing sick they could get the Reg. reported unfit for duty so that it would be disbanded for 30 or 60 days and they played it so well that when we were ordered out on drill there would not more than one hundred men be reported for duty and one day lost week Gen Nelson in reviewing the drilling come across our Reg. 100 strong drilling battalion drill and riding up he asked what company that was and he was answered that it was the 10th Reg. Well says he I will see about this and rode off. The next day he

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Camp Wickliff Ky January 27th 1862 Mrs. Sarah Davis My dear wife After waiting impatiently for some 8 or 10 days for a letter from you I began to think something was wrong until last Friday I was officer of the guard and in the evening one of our boys came to the guard house and brought me 2 letters and a package of papers. One letter was your lengthy and very interesting one of the 20th Inst. and the other was from Wm. [Van?] which was also interesting. So by reading the letters and papers I put in the lonesome night very cumfortabl. You can hardly immagine the joy it gave to me hear that you were all in such good health. As regards my health it is what you might call good. I have had a bad cold for some days but I am nearly well of it now, but I am not fit for duty for I have got a regular old fashioned Stone bruse on my heel which is rather remarkable as I have not been going barefoot any but one thing certain it hurts like thunder but will be well in a few days for it is about ready to be opened. The health of the Regiment is 50 percent better than it was 10 days since. And also the dicipline of the Regiment I am happy to say is again getting on a good and honorable footing again. The officers (some of them) wanted to get a furlough and could not so they thought that by playing sick they could get the Reg. reported unfit for duty so that it would be disbanded for 30 or 60 days and they played it so well that when we were ordered out on drill there would not more than one hundred men be reported for duty and one day lost week Gen Nelson in reviewing the drilling come across our Reg. 100 strong drilling battalion drill and riding up he asked what company that was and he was answered that it was the 10th Reg. Well says he I will see about this and rode off. The next day he