To Galen W Pearsons from RH Milroy Oct 26th 1864

              Tullahoma, Tenn. 
 
        Oct. 26th 1864 
 
 
 
Galen W. Pearsons 
 
		Dear Sir, 
 
 
 
		    Your kind letter					 
of the 17th inst  is recd.  There is no one 
whose memory I cherish with more 
melancholy pleasure or profound respect 
than that of my dear friend & command in 
arms Wm. E. Pearsons.  His name “brings 
the light of other days around me” and it 
affords me pleasure to hear from any one 
connected with him.  I am sorry that I am 
not able to give you a “word from the front” 
directly for my command is not in the 
Extrean front where I would very much 
prefer that it should be.  But though I 
am not directly in Extrean front at present 
yet I am in daily intercourse with who are 
from “the midst of battles & bullets” and 
am acquainted with their feelings, sentim- 
ents and desires ( of the soldiers of our comm.) 
		   and I can assure you