.NTYy.MTAxMg

Mobile Alabama, May 14th 1865, Dear Mother, To day finds me seated beneath a tall pine tree three miles north of the City of Mobile trying to notate you an answer to your beloved effusion of the 25th April, received yesterday even. I am truly glad to learn of the improvements of your health and hope it will continue to improve rapidly so as you will be with us on this earth for years to come. The time is fast approaching when I will be permitted to pressed to they bosom as I once was in my boy hood days. Once again I will feel the fine presence of your lips to mine. And once again I will be united, sheltered under the same roof which in my infancy I loved & now is dearer to me than then