Letter from
Leander F. Crumley
to his wife
Nancy Crumley
June 6, 1862

June 6th 1862
Big Creek Gap    Campbell County Tennessee

Dear Companion I seat my self to inform you that I Received yours to Day of the 23rd May which give me great satisfction to hear you was all well I Can inform you that I am well all But Sore from my march over the Cumberland Mountains we left here the 2nd and marcht three Days over the Roufest mountians and Some of the march in the night and one night we marcht untill 12 oclock in the night and the roughest Road that I Ever saw and we marched down a Ravine a Bout four miles and found a Dead man in the revine he had Been Dead sometime for he had got to smelling we Left him there it was so Dark we Couldn’t see him we felt him and new it was a man it Raind all the time that we was gone and if we Dident see hard time I think we Did for we had But a Bout half hour to cook our Rashings in and none of us had time to cook half Enough and no Chance to get any over on that Side of the mountian for all over there is tories and has Left there farms and gone to Lincolns army we went in three miles of the Cumberland River and three miles from Boston to the Union Camp but found it Deserted when we got there so we had our walk for nothing for we thought we would get to fight some But was Badly mistaken the Letter that I got to Day I cant Read I have to gess at it But I will Bring it Back with me when I come and See if the one that wrote it Can Read it for no one in Camps can You write that you have wrote me 8 Letters I have got 5 from home

(pg 2) so three of your Letters has not come that you have wrote to me  I here that we have to Leave here But Don’t Know wher we will go But if I can get away from these mountians I will Be glad of the Swap and would Be glader if I was out of the Command of General Barton for Evry time he gets Drunk he gives orders to march and from what I here that Evry time he can get Enough to make him drunk but the privets gets none to Drink and take all the weather I Cant make out what you wrote a Bout the children only the Baby Could set a Lone and Crawl and that Elick had wor Briches and Said he was a man But had to Be whipt Evry Day a Bout the Ducks I think that you Could get Allison Ledford to write for you if you would try and then I could Read what you write E. C. Ledford is puney But not Bad off T. Ledford has the mumps he is Sweld a rite smart Robert Abernathy is tolerable Bad off with his Brest William Jackson is very sore from his march But is well all the Rest of the boys from that settlement is well But M. J.  Nix he is at Knoxville yet we have just got orders to march in the morning But Don’t Know wher we will go tell all the Children to Be smart and mind you good and I will Bring them a pretty when I come home and if they don’t Be smart I wont Bring them any thing tell Elick to quit pestering the Duck if he is a man write Evry week and I will do the same send your Letters to Knoxville untell I write for you to Direct some wher else so no more at this time your Husband

To Nancy E. Crumly                                                                                     L F Crumly

submitted by Christine Crumley Brown

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