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Page 18 of 63
Camp near Corinth, Mississippi
Friday morning, May 30th, 1862
My Dear Wife:-
Having the chance to send you a note, I improve the opportunity, knowing that you will be glad to hear from me at every chance I have to write.
My health is very good, but the weather is so warm that I am very lazy. I hope that you are now enjoying good health.
I wrote to Miss E.A. Hamilton two or three days ago and enclosed a note to you. I had received the three papers sent by Miss Colburn. You will thank her for me. The same mail had brought me your letter of the 20th, but it got into the package of another Company and I did not get it till after I had mailed the letter to Lib. Since then we have moved close to General Popes Headquarters. Yesterday we went on a scout a few miles south of here and visited Glendale on the railroad, five miles east of Corinth. We found no rebels there. They had taken their pickets away from there just two days before. There is some fighting going on nearly all the time at some place along the lines. There is no telling when the battle will begin. Sometimes the firing is quite heavy and fast for a considerable time. I do hope that before this reaches you, Corinth may be in our possession. There is now a smoke over there that looks like the town is being bunt. Then there is another smoke away south of the town. The talk in camp is that it is a bridge on the railroad south of Corinth. If they have not evacuated the town and that bridge is burned, they will either have to fight or surrender. The 21st Regt. is camped close here. I have saw Major W.E. McMacken, Lieut. R.D. Easly and George F. Tryner and others of that Regiment. They occupy the trenches on the extreme left. The 35th Illinois is also close here. As we moved out here I saw A.H. Watkins. He is in the 25th I believe.
The health of our Company is tolerable good. 48 privates present for duty. I hope Eldridge Jones may soon be able to return. I will write you again in a day or two in answer to yours of the 20th.
Corinth is ours.
William A. Smith
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