Ypsilanti April 1st 1862

		Dear wife wanting
to hear from you I take this
opportunity to Let you know that
I an well and am anxious to hear
from you I had no trouble when
I got back I have been to work
making boxes to cary things in
we have not got our pay yet
and ther is no prospects of it at
preset I have expected a Leter
from you to Let me know how you
was but I have not had one so I wish
that you would wrte right away
I Can not get any money at the bank
so you will have to take what you have
got to byy hay if you want it when
you write to me Let me know if
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to Almond my boy I wish that 
you would write and Let me know
how you are a geting along with your
thingS & to tel uncle Baker that
I want him as soon as you get ths to write
to me and Let me know how he is
there is some talk that we
shal not Leave here till the
last of the month and if we
should not I shal try to 
come home again but I
do not know as i can no more now
   So Good By B Brock
   who is a member of the
bully 14th Irish Brigade
one of the greatest [regim?]
that ever Left the state

     Address Bengeman Brock
     Company K 14th reg mich In
	Ypsilanti

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heard from [Ber?]
			B B

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Three hours from [East?]
[Salt?] or [Oil?] often the [bowells?]
are [moved?] [illegible] the 2
once in three hours