if you get your money rite* and let me no immeaditaly

		Camp cumberlan   April the 3  1862
Dear Wife 
 I snatch this opportunity to drop you a few lines as I have the chance to send them in B.B. Decker(1) letter  
I am in good health for which I feel thankful to god who is the giver of all good blessings  Now my object
in riting this is to let you no that Brother Maple(2) expects to start home in the morning and I am going to send 
you a ten Dollar Bill by him  I rote to you in my last letter that I would send it By lieutenant Penic(3)  I did not 
no then that Maple was coming home  now if you get the money I expect you had better pay our tax  I dont 
expect $10 will be enough to pay our tax  if it does not if you can get the balance from some Boddy I will 
send the money to pay it as soon as I make another draw and that wont be a geat while  if you pay the tax 
get  the receipt and keep it  Now Rachel I will let you no that B B and me done a hard eavnings washing 
yesterday eavning  we made 40 cents and we also mad verry sore fingers  Now I will quit till eavning  
Now I have ben for the first time to help burry one of my fellow Soldiers by the honors of war  it was a 
solum scen  his name is Benjiman Kesteron(4)  we beried him on a beutiful  mound in the river bottom  
I must close  still remember your unworthy husban in your prayers  I must quit and help get supper 

 Your husban until Death

			David S Morgan to Rachel Morgan  

* as always, I do not correct the spelling or change the text.
(1) B.B. Decker is most likely Bazil B. Decker, Company G.
(2) Probably Sgt. William Maple, Company G
(3) Second Lieutentant Elijah T. Pennick, Company G
(4) Benjamin Kesterson, Company G, died Cumberland Ford, Ky, April 3, 1862