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09_1862-04-24-Page 01

Camp at Pittsburgh landing Tenn 
April 24th. 1862 
Mrs. Sarah Davis 
My dear wife 
Haveing a few leisure moments this beautiful afternoon I will improve them by writing you a few hasty lines. informing you of my good health and hoping you and our dear little girls are enjoying the same blessing.  And also hoping that you are all enjoying yourselves in the fullest extent among your near and dear relatives. You wrote in your last of my being dissatisfied with the manner in which you had fixed your household affairs. You are certainly mistaken on that schore for I know of no better way that you could have managed it; I would have been opposed to your selling off the things and breaking up housekeeping.  But when you leave things as you have done I know that they are safe and you and the children can protract your visit as long as you wish and still say you have a home to go back to.  As regards the cow I did not wish to part with her but I know that she is in good hands and also know that if we need her again in any reasonable time that we can get her.  I am extreamely glad to hear that your mouth was getting better so soon but by the way the first I knew of its being sore was when you said it was getting well.  I only hope you may find treatment equally as good for your other diseases while you remain at your fathers.  The arrangement you made with mother concering the house and rent I think is the best arrangement either of you possibly could have made under existing circumstances as by

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Camp at Pittsburgh landing Tenn April 24th. 1862 Mrs. Sarah Davis My dear wife Haveing a few leisure moments this beautiful afternoon I will improve them by writing you a few hasty lines. informing you of my good health and hoping you and our dear little girls are enjoying the same blessing. And also hoping that you are all enjoying yourselves in the fullest extent among your near and dear relatives. You wrote in your last of my being dissatisfied with the manner in which you had fixed your household affairs. You are certainly mistaken on that schore for I know of no better way that you could have managed it; I would have been opposed to your selling off the things and breaking up housekeeping. But when you leave things as you have done I know that they are safe and you and the children can protract your visit as long as you wish and still say you have a home to go back to. As regards the cow I did not wish to part with her but I know that she is in good hands and also know that if we need her again in any reasonable time that we can get her. I am extreamely glad to hear that your mouth was getting better so soon but by the way the first I knew of its being sore was when you said it was getting well. I only hope you may find treatment equally as good for your other diseases while you remain at your fathers. The arrangement you made with mother concering the house and rent I think is the best arrangement either of you possibly could have made under existing circumstances as by