Camp on Savannah River Sixty Miles South of Augusta Jan. 14, 1865

My Own Dear Laura

Capt Brown starts for home tomorrow morning and I will write a few lines. I have written at least twenty letters since I left you but no opportunity like this has ever offered. I know you will receive this direct which is of great satisfaction.

Since I last wrote nothing of much note has transpired with me. I am enjoying good health and fine spirits which is all a soldier needs, except rations and clothes. If I could only hear from you and the little ones I would be all right but alas it seems that I am forever to remain in doubt and fear as to what is going on at home. I know my dear you have written many times and of course the fault lies with-the mail.

-",While I was dismounted in Savannah I wrote two letters which I hope you have not received because I never in all my life was so low in spirits. I was so confident of being a prisoner that I almost made my will in the last letter.

After the evacuation of the place, I wrote several letters of a different character. I hope you have long since received them.

We are now ordered to recross the Savannah River which accounts to some extent for my good spirits. I suppose we will go near Macon, Georgia which will be at least one hundred miles bearer home. I am also informed that Col Miller has succeeded in getting an order to carry this Regiment back to Mississippii. We will no doubt start in tan days for Jackson Miss. I will try to go by home. If I fail I want you to take the Cars and come to see every chance. I will write and let you know when to come. Col Miller will reorganize this Regiment at Brookhaven which is a small town below Jackson some thirty miles.

True we will not be in the vacinity of home. But we can hear from those so near and dear to us which is the greatest consolation to a soldier. I wrote to you in my last letter that I would send you one thousand dollars by Capt Brown but now there is a probability of us going to Miss I will buy another good horse of mine with the money which will no doubt be of more value to us than the money. However I will send some in this letter which you can appropriate as you think best.