Spotswood H. Hatcher (1831-1891) joined Company A, 45th TN Infantry (CSA) apparently in late 1862. He writes his wife – Mary Jane Andrews Hatcher, on February 7th, 1863:
- I would like to come home soon but I am not taking on very much about it. I am getting over my home sick a little & getting a little more cheerful than at first & just take it as a sure thing that I have got to stay away from you and the children during the war (if God spares my life so long.)
If this war will just close soon and I can live at home in peace with you and the children, I think will be one of the happiest days you ever saw. I will know how to appreciate home and the comforts of life, if we shall be in comfortable circumstances. If God spares me and lets me return to my family to live again, I don’t intend that any body shall make a better husband than I will be to you.
Source: Williamson County: The Civil War Years, 2006: p. 10 (by Rick Warwick)
Available from the WCHS.
