| #15 WRA VI to FLA pencil on blue lined paper Beauregard�s retreat 25 miles below Corinth June the 5th 1862 Dear Fannie Your highly appreciated letter came to hand a few days ago. I was truly glad to hear that you were well and such a good machine to work. I had not read a line from home until the 3rd [?word?] I got five that day one from you two from father & two from Mr. Gibeon Brown. you can guefs [guess] how glad I was to hear from you � you said in your letter that you had written to me last � I have only had the letter that Bill Moseley brought � I lost my box of provision and clothing clear right by the evacuation of Corinth � recon some Yank will have a fine time chewing my tobacco. All the boxes were lost at Corinth came on at the same time that mind did � I was staying in the country twenty miles below Corinth with measles and had been staying there 24 days when our retreat commenced � when I heard that our army was retreating I toddled off south pretty fast. my twenty four days in the country cost me Eighteen dollars but I don�t begrudge the money for I believe I would have died if I had not got at as good a place as I did. I am still in bad health but improving � I have the diarheah all the time and a bad cough. Won�t weigh more that 125 lbs. I have got[ten] to be a perfect baby � I have been sick so long � you know how much I have laughed about people crying � but I cried like a pretty fellow when I got those letters from home. Our company was in skirmish yesterday evening 3rd Lieut Thomas came in last night with a ball in his arm � We think the Yanks have got several of our sick boys � among them was Tom Brooks � I want you to be certain to go back home. I will write soon. W R Anderson folded so that address shows: Mrs Frances Anderson West Point Geo care of John R Anderson |