HENDERSON COUNTY, TN - LETTERS - Lucinda J. Paine Smith to John C. Smith, 3 Jul 1864 ----¤¤¤---- NOTE: From Lucinda J. Payne Smith to husband John Culpepper Smith. This is written on the top ½ page pale blue paper with blue lines in brown ink. No year but assumed 1864. I have added capitalization and periods to facilitate reading this transcript. All spelling and sentence structure are her own. - RGE 2003 July 3rd Very dear husband I received a letter from you to day. It is the third one I have got since you left home the last time. I am glad to hear from you at all times but sorry to hear you hav no idy when you will get home. From what I had heard before your letter came I thought you would be at home soon. O my dear I want to see you so bad the tears starts and blinds me. It is so hard to be separated from all the true friends I have on earth for a short time but the (2 words unreadable) of not seeing you (unknown) and not to think too of the (back page) dangers you have to pass through it is almost more than I can bare but for your sake and the childrens I try to not not yet giv up. Ally is not well. She has some fever and her throat is sore. I was very sick of a Thursday nighte. I had a chill and fever but I am better now. This is the third letter I have written to you. I started one last Monday in that I gave you the nuse and how we was getting a long but I would write more now if I had papper. I would have written oftener than I have if I could but I am almost always at home and never know when any one is going until they are gone. I think you mite as well be at home. Some as Mose and of others all the time. Them that will say (stay?) in the Army may stay and them that comes hom is not molested. There is no justis in no such doing (?). I feel like I could talk to you a week and not stop but my papper fails and I must quit. LJ Smith ___________________________________________________________________ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: R. Easley ___________________________________________________________________