Stevenson  Jackson Co
                                         Ala.
                              February 9, 1863
Dear Sister
   Your kind letter of the 31st arrived here
yesterday and I assure you that I was glad to
hear from you for I have not heard a word from
you since you last wrote to me and that is some
time since with your kind letter there was one
came from home   I hear from there about once
a week   its stated that they were all well
they say it is a great time for marrying around
there at present   Reuben Woodford and Eliza
Vincent were married the 27th of Jan. and I hear
that Orlando Bovee and Gilbert Felter are
married and Jane Ayers is amongst the numbered
I think Sarah Parks does not have very good 
luck   Im affraid she will have to live an old
maid if she does not meet with better success
before long   I guess she was not welcomed much
in Pompey on her last visit and I am glad of it
She told Sarah and Ophelia that she was glad
that she was not sick a year ago last summer
for if she had been the neighbors would have
thought that she was lovesick   Poor girl   How
I pitty her   she meets with such bad luck   I
should thought she would had to went over and
seen Delia when she was in the neighborhood but
just as well that she did not for I think her
room would be far better than her company there
Delia wrote a little about her to me   She does
not think any more of her than she used to   Del.
is pretty prompt about writing   I receive a letter
from her about every week and I write once

a week to her when it is so that I can   Sometimes
it is so that I cannot write when I want to   I
am glad that Hector has enlisted   I wish he had
enlisted in our Regiment   Men is just what we
want for the next spring is going to open with
hard fighting on both sides   We are preparing to
meet them in this part   Old Grant is getting
large supplies to the front both to Chattanooga
and Knoxville   He intends to drive them out of
Georgia in the spring but we will have some hard
fighting to do before we can take Atlanta   that
is a strong fortified place and if the Rebs fight 
as they ought I think it will be as hard or the
hardest Battle fought since the commencement of
the War   We are having a pretty nice time of it
at present   We are guarding the Nashville and
Chattanooga R.R.   I hope they will leave us hear
a while but I think they will take us to the front
again as soon as there is any fighting to be done
They could not get along without the white star
division but if they put us through as they did
when we was in Tennesee when our time is out
there will not be many of the white star Div. left
but I am ready   I have only 18 months longer to
serve and that will soon wear away   All I ask
for is health and I think I can go through   My
health has been excellent since I left Washington
All the Pompey boys that are left are well   Milton
Frost is dead   I must close for present   I send
my love to you all
    from your affectionate brother
                     J.A. Morrison
E.M. Snook
     write soon   good day