Letter from
Leander F. Crumley
to his wife
Nancy E. Crumley
March 1st, 1863

Jackson Miss March 1st / 63

Dear Companion

I imbrace the present opportunity writing to inform you that I am not well But feel much Better then I have Been I have Been verry Bad off But have got a good stumick to Eat at this time and hope that I will soon Bee well a gain so I can get Back to the Regment a gain for I have got tired the hospatal for the 4th of this month I have Been in the hospatal three months and no chance of getin a furlow at this time as I no of the docktor promised me he would try for me a furlow But he still lets it a Lone so I fear that I will not get it at all

(pg 2) There was one man in this hospatal that got a furlow this last week His mother come after him he lived twelve miles below Gainesville in Georgia but he could not get it for only twenty days but I will put up with one Just Long Enough to get home and have it prolonged after I get there for I have stade in the hospatal untell I have got so home sick that I will start on most any sort of a showing so I could get home I have not got no Letter from you But one Since I come to the Mississippi But I have Been looking for one and would be Glad to hear from you and hear whear you had mooved too as I heard you was going to moove

(pg 3) below Mount yonah but never heard whear you had mooved too I think that if I was at home a while I would get well when I could get some irish potatoes cabage Salet and pickels and milk to eat I would get fat a gain for I am verry pore at this time and I am so weak that I can hardly get up the stares to my room But if I have good luck I shall Rise with it yet I don’t think that I will weigh more at this time then 125 or 130 pounds But have got a good appatite So it look like I would mend from now on if I have no Back Set I have not herde from the Regment since I came here 18 Days a go they was a good many Sick at that time

(pg 4) I want you to write as often as you can and Excuse me for not writing oftener for I have been so bad off that I could not write and I am so nurvious that I don’t Know whether you can Read this or not but it the Best I can do Write and Direct to Jackson Miss Blind Assilem hospatal and with all the News so I will come to a close by sineing my self your Husband untell Death

L F Crumly

To Nancy E. Crumly

submitted by Christine Crumley Brown

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