HENDERSON COUNTY, TN - LETTERS - Lucinda J. Paine Smith to John C. Smith, 23 Jul 1864 ----¤¤¤---- NOTE: From Lucinda J. Paine Smith to John Culpepper Smith serving with Bells Brigade. No year is given but other letters indicate it to be 1864 while he was stationed outside of Tupelo, MS. Spelling and sentence structure are faithfully rendered here while some capitalization and sentence breaks are added for clarity of reading. - RGE 2003 July 23rd My Dear I embrace this opportunity of writing you a few lines to let you heare frome us. I got a letter from you last Wenday and was verry glad and verry thankful (unknown) to know you was alive and safe tho I learned from other letters that the fight was not over and I have spent a miserable weeke and even now I am afreade the yankeys will reinforce and com out again. O my dear if you knew that a time I hav you surley would come home if thare is eny chance. Ally has bin sick of and for the last month. She first had a soer throat and then something like the spring nettles and now she has fevers evry day and is broke out all over in soars. The doctor says it is som kind of pox. (Back page) The fever is raging very bad in this country. Mr Eydlet his last two children Fanny and Rose James wif and two of their children has them verry bad. Your Father thrashed wheet here last Wendsday makes only ten bushels to Owen. I shall have to quit for want of a chance to write. I had to writ a part of what I written with Ally in my arms and I don't know wither you can read it or not but it is the best I can do under the circumstances. I will close for present. So Farewell my darling L.J. smith To J. C. Smith ___________________________________________________________________ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: R. Easley ___________________________________________________________________