July 8th, 1865
Camp near Louisville KY

Dear Parrents,

I seat myself this beautiful Saturday morning to answer your kind and affectionate letters which came to hand yesterday, I was glad to hear that you were all well, I expected that Father was down again with a pain in his back like he was sometime past; but oh how glad I was when I heard different, I hope that you all may still keep your health and take the world as easy as you can without me for a few more days, and then I think I will be at home to share or enjoy its pleasures as well as its sorrow with you. You stated in your letter that Williams had returned home but didn’t say whether little Frank Mercer had or not.

Our muster rolls are here at headquarters and as soon as they are made out and signed we will be sent to Indianapolis where we will receive our final settlement, which I think will be done within two weeks at the furthest some regiments here have theirs made out and will be ready to start home by the first of the week but the leading officers of this regiment haven’t got over their fourth of July yet and don’t want to leave as long as they can hold an office, they don’t care no more for the men than they would a dog but as old general Sherman say we will be as good as they are when we are mustered out the general was here on the fourth and gave us a few words of advice he is a common an old man as ever you seen he knows about what’s right too I received a letter from Van Kirk yesterday and he stated that all the boys had got back home but Bill Wallace he had to stay six months yet for desertion he said that Dick Kendall was stepping around their [sic] as independent as a hog on ice and old Pomfrey [?] Smash had another finger off Milt Stevens was a partner of John Wartens they are keeping store in the old kyger corner he said that bill Kendall was talking of going to Cambridge start a saloon & he said the service had made a man of Wils Morton he said he had cooled down considerble.

Father you stated in your letter that I never said nothing about John Braden that is true I never thought of him when I was writing the reason of that was this that I don’t mess

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