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Camp on Stony Creek 9 miles from Nashville Tenn 
Nov. 24th 1862 
Mrs. Sarah Davis 
My Dear wife 
I now Seat myself to the most unpleasant task that I have undertaken for many a long day and that is the answering of your letter of the 18th inst and I hardly Know how to commence it but after a long Study I conclude to take up in detail and answer it by detail. 
Well in the first place you Speak of my dissatisfaction in regard to your packing up your things and leaveing them where you did and going to your fathers.  I acknowledge that the arrangement did not suit me and you Know I gave you my reasons for my not being Satisfied in my former letters, but it was done therefore I could not help it and had dropped the Subject. 
You ask to Know how I Knew how you left our things.  I answer that all I know about it is what I learned in your own letters.  You Stated that Sam & Eves packed the things and put them in two rooms and rented the house out but did not tell me who they rented it to.  I Saw Wm. Duvall Some days since who had just returned from home and he told me that no one was liveing in the house.  And that being the case I Still think that they are not in a very secure place for you Know that there is not a door in the house but what is easily opened. 
The next is your sudden opposition to the house which I commissioned Henry Husted to buy for us.  When you last wrote concerning that house you appeared well pleased with it and anctious to buy it but now it appears not to suit your fancy at all, but why the change in your Sentiments in that respect I do not Know. 
You then appear to be very much hurt because I did not send the money to you.  The reason I did not send it to you is this.  You wrote to me that the house was offered for Sale at $700.00 and I thought it cheap and suitable for us, consequently I had not money enough of my own to make the first payment and fearing that it would be bought by some one I therefore Stated the case to Some of my friends here in the company who was well acquainted with the property and they volunteerly come forward and offered me the money, and I accepted $200.00 of what was offered me and could had $400.00 if I would have taken it.  And I sent it to Henry Husted because you was not there to receive it and being absent of course could not make the trade. 
I gave him the orders that if he could not make the trade to deposit the Money in the bank in your name and send you the certificate of deposit  Consequently the money would have been in your hands and you could have got it any day you needed it by simply Sending the certificates and had it Sent to you immediately.  You had written to me a short time before that that you had $50.00 on hand to live on, and I thought that you

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Camp on Stony Creek 9 miles from Nashville Tenn Nov. 24th 1862 Mrs. Sarah Davis My Dear wife I now Seat myself to the most unpleasant task that I have undertaken for many a long day and that is the answering of your letter of the 18th inst and I hardly Know how to commence it but after a long Study I conclude to take up in detail and answer it by detail. Well in the first place you Speak of my dissatisfaction in regard to your packing up your things and leaveing them where you did and going to your fathers. I acknowledge that the arrangement did not suit me and you Know I gave you my reasons for my not being Satisfied in my former letters, but it was done therefore I could not help it and had dropped the Subject. You ask to Know how I Knew how you left our things. I answer that all I know about it is what I learned in your own letters. You Stated that Sam & Eves packed the things and put them in two rooms and rented the house out but did not tell me who they rented it to. I Saw Wm. Duvall Some days since who had just returned from home and he told me that no one was liveing in the house. And that being the case I Still think that they are not in a very secure place for you Know that there is not a door in the house but what is easily opened. The next is your sudden opposition to the house which I commissioned Henry Husted to buy for us. When you last wrote concerning that house you appeared well pleased with it and anctious to buy it but now it appears not to suit your fancy at all, but why the change in your Sentiments in that respect I do not Know. You then appear to be very much hurt because I did not send the money to you. The reason I did not send it to you is this. You wrote to me that the house was offered for Sale at $700.00 and I thought it cheap and suitable for us, consequently I had not money enough of my own to make the first payment and fearing that it would be bought by some one I therefore Stated the case to Some of my friends here in the company who was well acquainted with the property and they volunteerly come forward and offered me the money, and I accepted $200.00 of what was offered me and could had $400.00 if I would have taken it. And I sent it to Henry Husted because you was not there to receive it and being absent of course could not make the trade. I gave him the orders that if he could not make the trade to deposit the Money in the bank in your name and send you the certificate of deposit Consequently the money would have been in your hands and you could have got it any day you needed it by simply Sending the certificates and had it Sent to you immediately. You had written to me a short time before that that you had $50.00 on hand to live on, and I thought that you