May the 18 – 1863

Batery near Nachetoches Louissianna

Dear Father – I have written to you again and again – still it Seems impossoble for me to here from you through the placies from which I wrote asre now all in the hands of the Yankeys I have nothing of interes to communicate I am well and getting along very well I belong to the C.S. Light Batery as you know if you got my last letter –
We are encompted near Grant Ecore Lousisianna though we expect to move back towards Alexandria in a few days.. We had Several days of hard fighting Since I wrote to you last Capt. O.J. Semmes our commander was captured near Franklin.
If you receive this pleas write immediately and let me know where all the Fooks are So that I may write to them all, More if I can once here from you and know that you get My letters I can then write you Something historical –
Direct yours to me Care Semmes’ Batery near Nachetoches Louissianna

Yours as ever J. W. Davis