Mississippi Tuesday May 27, 1862     Dear Mother I received  your letter this forenoon which  was dated May 21 I was very  glad to hear from you the letters  had one from Sarah Bradly  and one from Hannah  the envelop was so full I   thought there was one in   it from Mary Aimee but come   to open it I found there  was none when I received   the letter I was in line   of battle we was called 
        Page 2     up this morning at 4  oclock and we have been  in line ever since we stacked  our arms and sat down  with all our things on  and are not allowed to take   them off we have our haversacks  with two days rations and  our canteens filled with  water and one hundred rowns  of -------- a piece and we  are here waiting for an order  I do not think my letters  go through very regular   because I write every day or  two these had been about  a week I have written every  day I do not see why you  did not get that money   may be by the time I   get your next letter    
        Page 3     you will get it I sent 20  the first time and 25 the  next I sent the first the  first day of May and the  last the 20 of May if   you get it let me know  if Hannah wants any  more let her have it as  for me getting a discharge   that could not be done there  is boys here that was wounded  in our last skirmish that  ought to go home if any  boddy but they cannot get  home it is so far from  the river that it would  hurt them getting them there  last they were running there  ---  all night in Corinth  we could hear them as plain  as though they was not half   
        Page 4     a mile off I think they are   leaving Corinth very fast  or getting reinforcements very  fast and we cannot --- which  we have to sleep with our  accoutriments all on so if  we should be called up in  a hurry we would not be more  than a weak getting out your  letters come here very regular  but I think mine do not go  regular because I answer one  it makes no difference if I have  just written I have answered  every one that Mary Aimee has  written and am waiting for  an answer give my love to  her and tell her to write when  she get an answer from me or not  because I answer every letter she writes