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1862

Bolivar Tennessee, Nov. 2nd, Dear Sister, I improve my time this evening by penning you a few lines in order that you may know that Wm. and I are in good health and have plenty to eat. After I wrote you last we settled down at Corinth and nothing of importance transpired while we remained there. We drilled with our new recruits, stood picket went forageing etc. On the 29th of Oct. we received marching orders and on the 30th we started, got into Corinth and stood there all day. While there I saw Steven Thurman he was not very well. In the evening we traveled sevral miles out of Corinth and stoped. On the 31st we marched all day. Nov. 1st we reached this place in the evening and camped. We came pretty nigh starving to death on this last march. During the three days we were out I subsisted on three biscuits or rather the first day I had three biscuits and after that nothing. You don't appreciate what a favor it is to have plenty to eat. I don't know of any regiment that gets starved as often as we do. While I write an order comes for us to be ready to march in the morning at day light with five days rations and 250 rounds of cartriges. There is going to be a movement made from Corinth and this place perhaps on Holly-springs. The 103ed Ill. infantry and sevral other regiments arived here to day. The 103 is from Fulton Co. Dickesman formerly our quarter master is Colonel. To day I saw Henry Harris, Robert Little and had a chance to wish Jo Cone much joy in his matrimonial relation. This town is considerable of a place and fortify to some extent. I was in hopes that we would remain here sevral days. The Hatchie a beautiful clear stream of water runs within one hundred yds. of our camp. Our recruits are not all armed and are not all going with us tomorow. I will leave this with some of them to start it. I don't know