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In camp near Nashville Tenn Dec. 2nd 1862 
Mrs. Sarah Davis 
My dear wife 
Your Very Kind and welcome letter of Nov. 25th come to hand on Sunday last while I was on picket; and yesterday I was at the city and today I was on drill so I have had no oportunity of answering it until tonight. 
I will therefore Start out by saying that I am in good health You cannot immagine how happy it made me feel to read your letter couched in the language that it was for it made me think that your Spirits are better than it often is when you write I was Sorry to hear that your health is so poor but glad to hear that the children Keep so well. 
I do not Know when I have been better pleased with news than I was when you wrote that Henry Husted had succeeded in buying the house for us.  That has taken one of the main troubles off of my mind for now I have a home for my family to Stay in while I am away, and one that is not only cumfortable but one that is respectable and Situated in a respectable neighborhood.  And I do not think I ever made a better investment in my life than what it is.               You Speak about you going there to See about haveing your things put in the house.  I think it a very foolish notion for you to think of undergoing the fatigue and exposeier of the journey in your present State of health for it Stands you in hand to Keep Still as possible and make no more of them trips than you can possibly help.  And then the things can be moved there just as well without you going as for you to go.  Van, and Mother both wrote to me that they would attend to them as well as they could be attended to in their present situation.  And Van Said that if we got the house he would go and remove them to it if it was our wish. And I will write him to do so, in a day or two.  And I Shall tell Mother to remove to and Stay in the house until you get ready to go to it to Stay.  This may not suit you altogether from what you have wrote in Some of your former letters but I do not think you Knew or at lest dont Know now all you did write at times and do not think now as you wrote then for I guess you was excited at the time but I hope you have cooled off before now.  You Speak of the danger of not being able to pay for the house.  If I live I will be able to pay it without any trouble.  There is now due me over $3,00.00 and my wages

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In camp near Nashville Tenn Dec. 2nd 1862 Mrs. Sarah Davis My dear wife Your Very Kind and welcome letter of Nov. 25th come to hand on Sunday last while I was on picket; and yesterday I was at the city and today I was on drill so I have had no oportunity of answering it until tonight. I will therefore Start out by saying that I am in good health You cannot immagine how happy it made me feel to read your letter couched in the language that it was for it made me think that your Spirits are better than it often is when you write I was Sorry to hear that your health is so poor but glad to hear that the children Keep so well. I do not Know when I have been better pleased with news than I was when you wrote that Henry Husted had succeeded in buying the house for us. That has taken one of the main troubles off of my mind for now I have a home for my family to Stay in while I am away, and one that is not only cumfortable but one that is respectable and Situated in a respectable neighborhood. And I do not think I ever made a better investment in my life than what it is. You Speak about you going there to See about haveing your things put in the house. I think it a very foolish notion for you to think of undergoing the fatigue and exposeier of the journey in your present State of health for it Stands you in hand to Keep Still as possible and make no more of them trips than you can possibly help. And then the things can be moved there just as well without you going as for you to go. Van, and Mother both wrote to me that they would attend to them as well as they could be attended to in their present situation. And Van Said that if we got the house he would go and remove them to it if it was our wish. And I will write him to do so, in a day or two. And I Shall tell Mother to remove to and Stay in the house until you get ready to go to it to Stay. This may not suit you altogether from what you have wrote in Some of your former letters but I do not think you Knew or at lest dont Know now all you did write at times and do not think now as you wrote then for I guess you was excited at the time but I hope you have cooled off before now. You Speak of the danger of not being able to pay for the house. If I live I will be able to pay it without any trouble. There is now due me over $3,00.00 and my wages