Dear Parents:
I am seated this morning to drop you a few lines in answer to the one received in the box of provisions. It found me and all the rest of the Company well and still we enjoy the same blessing and hope these few lines will find you all enjoying the same blessing. It would have done you good to see us smother sausage and buck wheat cakes and butter and other good things. This will give us a start in rations that will last us 2 or 3 weeks. Our mess sure was proud of our eats and in our mess are some handsome, intelligent gentlemen, you know them all. Blad, Rufus W. Bell and Robert C. Bell. I am going to send this letter by James A. Harrell as he is going to start home on a furlough in the morning. His time will be out the 14th of February and he says he will bring back anything you want to send me. If you don t hear of us leaving here before he comes back  you may send me another small box if you want too and that will do me as long as I am going to stay in this army. I am in better hopes of the war ending sooner than I have ever had, although it is possible that it may last 8 or 9 months longer, but it is quite improbable. I am in hopes I can get a furlough in about 5 or 6  weeks. If it wasn't for that I would not stay here 10 days longer. That soap you sent me in the box just came in good time, my clothes were all dirty and I had no soap. I often regret that I had forgotten to write you to send me a piece. We poor soldiers have a hard time to it. Sure no one knows only we who have gone through this war. 

Well I must close, write me soon and give me all the news . 

Your devoted son,
Thomas W. Fisher 
 
 
 

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