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Camp Near Bowling Green Ky 
February 5th 1862 
Mrs. Sarah Davis 
My dear wife 
For the last ten days I have been looking verry anctiously for a letter from you and had almost dispaired of receiveing any but judge of my joy in receiveing your more than welcome letter of the 23rd & 25th ult. Our mail facilaties have been verry irregular for some days past but now I hope that it is better arranged for a time at least. I think there must be 2 or 3 of your letters which have never reached me as the last one that I received from you before the one of today was dated the 9th ult, and there are several things that I have made enquirys about which I have never heard from as yet. One thing is, I sent to you by Express while at Camp Wickliff a Box containig some Coffee and my Coat and Shawl, did you ever receive them? I have never received the box you sent me yet, did you direct it to Munfordville or New Haven. I wrote you a letter about the 1st inst, and now I will try to give you some of our experiance of soldier life since then. At that time we ware encamped 4 miles East of Bowling Green. We expected to march on, on Friday but owing to the rain which fell all night Thursday night and all day Friday, the River raised so we could not cross. Saturday was clear but Sunday it was rainy again and continued to rain verry hard all day and by night it turned cold and was sleeting and snowing some. At 5 Oclock on Sunday evening we ware ordered to strike tents and march forward. By dark we had arrived at the river, and all began to think we ware going to have a repetition of our sufferings such as one had on the 27th & 28th of September last on the summit of Cheat Mountain as the road ahead of us was obstructed by wagons and in places the mud knee deep, and as dark as it ever gets and (as I said before,) raining Sleeting and snowing all mixed together but at length the men succeeded in all getting ove the river but left the teams behind blockaded in the road. After getting across the river evry Company went on its

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Camp Near Bowling Green Ky February 5th 1862 Mrs. Sarah Davis My dear wife For the last ten days I have been looking verry anctiously for a letter from you and had almost dispaired of receiveing any but judge of my joy in receiveing your more than welcome letter of the 23rd & 25th ult. Our mail facilaties have been verry irregular for some days past but now I hope that it is better arranged for a time at least. I think there must be 2 or 3 of your letters which have never reached me as the last one that I received from you before the one of today was dated the 9th ult, and there are several things that I have made enquirys about which I have never heard from as yet. One thing is, I sent to you by Express while at Camp Wickliff a Box containig some Coffee and my Coat and Shawl, did you ever receive them? I have never received the box you sent me yet, did you direct it to Munfordville or New Haven. I wrote you a letter about the 1st inst, and now I will try to give you some of our experiance of soldier life since then. At that time we ware encamped 4 miles East of Bowling Green. We expected to march on, on Friday but owing to the rain which fell all night Thursday night and all day Friday, the River raised so we could not cross. Saturday was clear but Sunday it was rainy again and continued to rain verry hard all day and by night it turned cold and was sleeting and snowing some. At 5 Oclock on Sunday evening we ware ordered to strike tents and march forward. By dark we had arrived at the river, and all began to think we ware going to have a repetition of our sufferings such as one had on the 27th & 28th of September last on the summit of Cheat Mountain as the road ahead of us was obstructed by wagons and in places the mud knee deep, and as dark as it ever gets and (as I said before,) raining Sleeting and snowing all mixed together but at length the men succeeded in all getting ove the river but left the teams behind blockaded in the road. After getting across the river evry Company went on its