Letter from
General M. Jackson and Leander F. Crumley
(Recipient Unknown)
March 31st, 1861

March 31st 1861

Mount Yonah White Ga

Dear Brother We send you a few lines to let you know we are all well hopin these lines will find you well as I promise to write what they done with William at court the Juge find him Thirty Dollars and all cost by his neglect to attend to his case if he had attended to cort he would a come clear the case come up Tuesday morning and he never went till late in the Evening and the Juge find him for contempt of cort so you will have to work tell the 27th of April then his time will be out you may look for L.F.C. & Hardy to come with William when he comes we shall come Down to work till fall if nothing hapens more then we know of at present  Neders has a one dollar bill which he says he got from you on the Sentrel Bank Nashville Tennessee which is not good and I want you to write to me who you got if from if you know so I can get good money for it I still have Sam and he works well Father had a tru Bill found a ganist him at cort for retaining Spirets with out Licens he sold one gallon and they only took half of it a way and the Juge said it was just the same as if he had a sold the half gallon  I want you to wach for yourself for from what I can find out they have a Bill a ganst you So if any body comes after you Send them back as they went  Excuse us for not writing no more and receive the well wishes of

L. F. Crumley
G. M. Jackson

 G. M. Jackson

We for got to Name the Dog population so I will say all of our dogs has the distemper But I think they will Be able to take a fox in a few Days they was a dog a pestering me Last night and I tride to shoot it with Carbin But I could not get the chance for Flint & Drive took him of (off) so fast that he Left a smell behind him the same as the skunk cabbage
Tenna gows a rabit hunting Evry day and her and Jane treed one the other day
And Dad has give a way Drum to Wm. G. Goodrum

G.M.J.

Warren I will write one line be a good boy and mind you book and not kiss Black Betty too often write often and lots

Verlind Jackson

submitted by Christine Crumley Brown

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