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In Camp near Iuka Miss. 
June 9th 1862 
Mrs. Sarah Davis 
Dear Wife 
yours of the 25th of May come to hand last night and I now hasten to answer it.  I was sorry to hear of your affliction in your head and eyes and hope that the disease will soon disappear.  I am glad to hear that the children are so well and hearty and oh. how I long to see them, and romp as of times past, but I hope the times is not many months distant when I will be able to join you and them again with the assureance that I can Stay with you in peace and cumfort.  My health is excellent  On the next day after I last wrote to you our Brigade was sent to Corinth and I had a verry good oportunity of looking at the place  The town is about the size of Liberty but with the exception of one large and elegant Hotel (which is situated at the crossing of the Rail Road)  the houses are not as a general thing as good as they are in Liberty. The Rebels had burned 10 or 12 building consisting of ware houses and one Steam Flouring Mill and one Church. The Church had been used by them for a Magazine wherein they kept a large amount of Ammunition which exploded with a terrible noise early on Friday moring.  The ware Houses ware filled with Privision and Quarter Masters Stores, all of which of course was destroyed. Near the Rail Road track was several hundred wagons which they had been unable to get away and had burned most of them up but I suppose about one hundred ware left unburned.  A verry large amount of Camp equippage of evry kind had also been collected at the R.R, which was not got away and consequently was burned up.  And also a verry large amount of house hold good of evry kind had been taken there for transportation which shared in the general destruction.  And it would have made your heart ache to see the amount of Feather beds, bed clothes, Cupboard ware, Trunks full

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In Camp near Iuka Miss. June 9th 1862 Mrs. Sarah Davis Dear Wife yours of the 25th of May come to hand last night and I now hasten to answer it. I was sorry to hear of your affliction in your head and eyes and hope that the disease will soon disappear. I am glad to hear that the children are so well and hearty and oh. how I long to see them, and romp as of times past, but I hope the times is not many months distant when I will be able to join you and them again with the assureance that I can Stay with you in peace and cumfort. My health is excellent On the next day after I last wrote to you our Brigade was sent to Corinth and I had a verry good oportunity of looking at the place The town is about the size of Liberty but with the exception of one large and elegant Hotel (which is situated at the crossing of the Rail Road) the houses are not as a general thing as good as they are in Liberty. The Rebels had burned 10 or 12 building consisting of ware houses and one Steam Flouring Mill and one Church. The Church had been used by them for a Magazine wherein they kept a large amount of Ammunition which exploded with a terrible noise early on Friday moring. The ware Houses ware filled with Privision and Quarter Masters Stores, all of which of course was destroyed. Near the Rail Road track was several hundred wagons which they had been unable to get away and had burned most of them up but I suppose about one hundred ware left unburned. A verry large amount of Camp equippage of evry kind had also been collected at the R.R, which was not got away and consequently was burned up. And also a verry large amount of house hold good of evry kind had been taken there for transportation which shared in the general destruction. And it would have made your heart ache to see the amount of Feather beds, bed clothes, Cupboard ware, Trunks full