#37

Head Quarters 20^th Regt CV

Stevenson Alabama Nov 2^nd 1863

Dear Wife

It is with pleasure that I attempt to answer your letter of the 22^nd I have just received it this morning was glad to get it and to hear that that you ware all well I have been looking for a letter for some days and it has arived at last and findes me well and in good spirits this morning, and I hope when this reaches you it will find you all the same, I have been kept pretty straight for the last week on guard at the Hosptle Head Quarters but have left there now come away from there yesterday am detailed now for a pioneer how long before I shall be ordered somewhre else I cannot tell or whether we shall stay here at Stevenson long is uncertain. I suppose that they have been fighting between here and Chattanooga the last of last week and it is reported that our folks have drove the rebels off from Lookout Mountain but the particulars I have not heard yet I presume you will hear them before I shall, We had a pretty cold storme here last Friday and Friday Night it was very pleasant Saturday & Sunday but now it looks like rain againe, You wrote in your letter that you had put $90 ninety dollars in the bank that is all right if you could spare it as well as not, how much have you got in the bank now in all. Yours and Georgias boath togeather and how much have you now by you. It is now time for you to draw your money from the Town the first of Nov. When you answer this write wheather you have got it or not, I sent you six dollars in the last letter before this but have none to send in this have pretty much plaied out on money just now but then we ought to get our two months pay now before long If we do not I shall get short I fear although I have $12 or $15 dollars owing to me in the Company but that I can not get untill we are paied off; I want you should write all about how you are getting along and how the children carry sale wheather you have got a place for Edgar or wheather you are going to send him away from home to live or not I would like to see all of you and come home and stay with you but probably shall not before the expiration of three years or at least it haves that kind of a look to it now, Georgia I am always glad to receive a letter from you so you must not forget to write certainly as often as once a week if you do not get one from me as often as that. I should like some of our good apples and other things every thing is so costly down here any one cannot aford to buy I bought three Apples yesterday and paid 2 cts for them, I think if you could sell what Apples grow on our Baldwin tree at that rate they would fetch a little money, write all the news that you can get hold of what the neighbors are about and so on, If you want to know what I am about to day I can tell you I am shoveling shit. So goo[d] day

My love & a Kiss for you all from you ever beloved Husband & Father

A.C. Smith

PS Postage Stamps are rather scarce so if you want letters you must forward Stamps

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