March the – 8th. – 1864
	         Camp near Culpeper
		[Urgency?]
			      all
Dear and [absent?] friend ^ though fur
from my sight But not fur from my
mind my mind i Continuley [feasting?]
ToWards home i hav one thing to
Comfort me that your health is 
good i now you Cant help Being
Lonsom senCe their hay Bin such
A suden Chang With the thing
But i feal sory for you But
I dont see no Way that i Can
Help the matter you Wrote that
They had Bin taking [Bakers?]
  Property away and further more
you Wrote that they Was trying to
Clame some of ours i think that
they had Better Be a little Carful
To what they take or they might
git their fingers Burnt Bad

I Wish i Could Be at
Home at this Presant time
I think that i Would no
what arthority they hav in
Taking the first thing With
out goin legaley to Work it
seams that they hav took a [illegible]
[illegible] to go to Work and i think
if i had of Bin their i should
Not of let them surched or sean
Eny of Bakers Writings or handeld
eny of them it seams to me that
they are trying to Cheat you out
of your just demands But i
[if?] i was in your Place i should
not let them do as they was a minute
I think that as long as they have
Acted as they hav i Wood look
out and keepe all in my one
[pursesion?] that i had got in
my [posesion?] and not let them
Handel nor [tack?] the first thing

     untill they took a legal
Cours to abtain the Propertey you
you Wrote that they took the horses
A Way and then they Brought
Them Back a gain i think that
[Found?] out that they Was a goin
To Burn their fingers so they Prought
Them Back to save trubel it looks so
  My health is good at Present
     Every feet of lumber
  That is their Belongs to me
 and dont you let a feet of
it go

	No more this time
	Write Soon
	    B Brock