Letter from
Leander F. Crumley
to his wife
Nancy E. Crumley
June 1st, 1862

June 1st 1862

 Campbell County Tenn Big Creek Gap

Dear companion it is with pleasher that I imbrace the present opertunity of writing to inform you that I am in good health at this time hopen these Lines will Reach you Safe and find you & Children well I have no news to write at this time more then there is a great Deal of talk a Bout pease But I cant say that is true But it is too Be hope that peas will soon Be made and we all can return home to Stay in pease and Enjoy the pleasher of Being with our familys once more I would Like to Be at home to Day and take dinner with you to Get sallad milk and Butter for I never Did want greens as bad as I do at this time we Get nothing But wheat Bread Bacon and Some Beans and Spring water to Live on But we get plenty of that I would Like to Swap you some flower for corn meal So I Could get corn Bread for Dinner I got a few Lines from you yesterday in F M Letter and was glad to hear you was all well  there is two Letters on the Road for me I Recon for F M Said he wrote them Before he Left home and they have never come yet I own I Don’t think they will one of them is the one that you wrote a Bout the money I sent you and the one you wrote Before it I never got I have wrote to you Every week Since I left home So if you will count the weeks you will Know how many Letters I have sent you whether you have got them or not you said if I would come home in August that you would have a mess of yams if I Don’t come I when you get them I want you to eat some for me for my will is Good to come whether I get the chance or not But I hope pease will Be made time for me to get home to help Lay bye Corn if I can work

(pg 2) But I have Lay a Bout So much that my hands is so tender I Don’t think that I can work Enough to harden them this Summer I will tell you how my hands is and you can guess how tender they are when they are washt Clean the in Side is whiter then the out sid Like a negrows hands is if you was to pass By here you couldent tell it was Sunday for some of the Regments is out Driling and some Rubing the Rust off of ther guns and the Drums Beating and Last Sunday we Marched to this place from a Bove FinCastle we have stade Longer at this camp then we have at any camp since we Left Knoxville they is several of the Boys sick and none that Feeles Right well But non Down James Standrige is the worst off of any E.D. Ledford is mending fast Thomas L. Ledford has the measels But is not Bad off and they is several that says they are sick to Keep from Duty that has nothing the matter with them our officers has Been making out the pay Roll for the Last Two or three Days but I don’t know whether we will get any pay yet or not some thinks that we wont get any pay untell the 1st July But I think we will Be pade in a day or two tell your mother that I have wrote to J. C. Crumly for a Reciapt to make sugar and as soon as it comes I will send it to her FM Crumly is well and William is well I got a Letter from Green the 10th and all was well I got a Letter yesterday from James B. Crumly and his Eldest Boy was Down with the Pneumonia Fever the Rest was well I got a Letter from A D Crumly Dated 19th May and all was well So I will come to a close for this time write Evry week and direct as usal to Knoxville Tenn So no more But Remains your husband tell Death

To Nancy E. Crumly                     L F Crumly

Note in right margin: We are Still Lying out with out tents and when we make Bark tents we are orderd to march Serten and when it Rains or Looks Like it would we have to march so as to be Serten to take the Rain

submitted by Christine Crumley Brown

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