Writes to his wife, "how I do want to se you once more if the lord so wills that I can and my children to for I have got tired of this war is ever a fellow was in this world for they hant but a few left for duty in the regement and grow less every day and it is discourageing to do enny thing..." Reports to her his belief that their lack of food contributes to many soldier deaths. Tells about a time that he "happened to be with an old regement one day and we went to a house and asked for some thing to eat and they said that they had nothing in the house so we filed in line around the house and told them that we would se and they brought out butter and bread and milk and ham and honey in a bundance and we a good meal and piled our haversacks and left for the captain to settle damages if he ever did I dont no nor care thats the way they said they done..." Asks her to write longer letters and to report on the neighbors. Gives her advice for the looming winter, recommending that she "get in a comfortable plase if it takes the last dollar that I have earned...." Notes that he began writing the letter at noon, and finished it at ten o'clock.