(from archived RCHC Web Site)

Transcribed by Robert L. Bailey.  Original source unidentified.

Note:  James R. Thompson served in Company B, 5th Tennessee Infantry, USA.  Click here to view Robert Bailey‘s transcription of that unit.

Campside Murfreesboro, March 5, 1863

I am now (?) Have set down to rite you a feiew lines mi health is not as god as has bin but I am stil ??? lying short (?) theas lines and find you an children all wel I think of you very of in ?????? you think of me I no you it out some money I fin(?) money for you but I dont see no chances to send it. I will send you some as son as I can I want you to be content i no yor condition is bad I caint help it now i think it cant be long til times get beter I didnt you to this and sta their and do the best you can til the children handy for me tel them not to for git but let the late ? I will send it ???? out the first time git ??? I want to no the ??? of the body? of is in inded I want to rite to Robert Thornton (?) I have for got ???? of is. tell mis Snow that sam ? boy ? got thro safe it ??? Mel he has goin in mi compey A???? her to rite to him pleas tel her for me An tel her not to be oneagry tel Lizabeth Ishan her sone is dead died at Clive ? green ? Ther not got a leter yet this neise come bi one he may ? left? their I think it is so the man said he had 31 dollars Geor. G. Harvey died at nashville one month ago. Mother. I want you to rite in your letter al about your condition an tel me how you air gitin alonly. And rite when you wil nead money you roat in your last leter you receiv 40 ? dollars state in your nex leter how much money you wil nead this  ???? sarvice ? no how to do ??? meet I dont no what things comst ? now in that country ???? mi ????? son as yo can mitare ? is with you al. (lieut) Realy E. Tenn. volinteers Co. D.

James R. Thompson to Elisabeth Thompson