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Anderson Tenn Jan 25^th 1864

Dear Wife

I will now take this opportunity to answer your letters which came to hand yesterday  it was the sabbath and I was on guard  have just come off now, I was glad to get your letter and to hear that it was as well with you as it was  hope Ella wont be sick  your letter found me well am well to day and hope this will find you all the same  I got one letter yesterday dated the 13^th of Dec 1863 it hadnt been but one month and eleven days coming thats what I call coming throug in a hurry in that letter you wrote that you had bought Edgar a pair of skates in one that I got sometime ago you told me that he had carried his skates back that was the first that I knew that he had a pair now I see that you had wrote to me that he had a pair but I had not received the letter that contained it, in this letter I see that you wanted to know what kind of pills I brought with me  they was Graefenbergs  I should like another box of them perhaps you could fix them in a news paper so that they would come through with out loosing out, The other letter was dated Jan 9^th and mailed the 11^th  I was glad to hear from you that you had concluded to take up with my advise although perhaps sometimes I give poor, But I think in this case if you follow it you will do well at any rate try it and do as well as you can for you may nead some of that strength which you spoke of someday, if nothing happens, you say that you have had pretty cold wether there this winter  it has been very cold here since new Years till within a few days, it is very fine weather here to day warm and spring like and has been for the last few days, there is a cave near by here that [??] that one on cave hill all in the shade it aint anywhare  I went into this last Saturday stayed long enough to burn out a candle went I dont know how far I [smudged] not under take to tell but we was travailing all the time pretty much that we was in there some places would be narrow just wide enough for one person to walk then we would come into a large room perhaps forty or fifty feet across it and thirty feet high and such  a splendid sight as it was I tell you I never saw before  I presume I was two or three hundred feet below the entrance of the cave whare I went in some of the time   I will tell you the rest if I ever come home, My love to you all   From your Husband A.C. Smith

PS  thats what I call a fine looking letter anyhow

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