Jenaury the -   1863
	  24
        Camp near Branda [Brandy] station	
Dear Wife and sun to day is sunday
And i take this as my opertunity
To Wright theas few lines to you
To let you no how i am a gitting
A long my health is good at presant
And i hope that theas few lines
will find you Boath [injoin?] the same
I ReCeived your kind letter But the
News was sad to me to hear that
Almon was so sick i am inhopes that
When i git an answer from this letter
I shall hear that he has got Well
I hav tried to git a furlo and
It is of no use to try Eny more
I could not git a furlaw now
if my famley was all [livng?] at the
Point of death and i dont no
[illegible] i can git a furlaw this Winter
Now or not But as soon as i Can 

Git a furlaw i Will come home
I Waunt you to tell [tip?] that
I Waunt him to see that my famley
Has Plenty of Wood and see that
They dont sufer for the Waunt of
Things to keepe them Comfortable
And take the ver Best of Cair
of Almon and dont let him
Waunt for Eny thing that he wants
And it can Be got for him
Never mind the Cost the money
is shure and i Will Pay you
Well for all the trubel you take
And if [tip?] cant git Wood and
Take Cair of you tell him to
tell some one else to Cut tenn
or fifteen Cords and see that it
Drawed up to the [illegible] for them
And then Wright to me and
Tell me What the Cost is and
i Will see that they have their
Pay in Cash and as soon as they

     Can git the Work dun
    Now dont neglect this a tall
Now i Will Wright a Bout my [afairs?]
And Bakers in the first PlaCe he owes
me 116 dollars for Barn timber. and
He owes me 116 dollars for Work
And sally ann i Waunt you to make
out your a count and [Put?]
It With my a Count and Put
It in Thomas Brawling hands for
Him to Collect and mabey you
Had Better let him [figer?] [these?]
A Counts up for you Becaus
he is a Justis of Peas
sally a[hole in paper] the harness that Baker
[eyed on?] his team is my harness
you have got Bakers [books?] in your
pussessions and i Waunt you to [look?]
At his [books?] and when you find Eny
ACounts of his and mine keepe
Them untill they are settled up
Becaus their is a good meny others

  small a Counts that he
Had got [down?] that i cant think
of now Never mind What
folks say dont you giv up
the first thing untill their
is a legal [cors?] taken to [illegible]
His Property as long as he is
[illegible] us they Cant take eny thing
From you untill you git
your Pay
If almon is abel to Write
I Waunt him to git his likness taken
And you git yours taken With his
And send them to me
No more at Present
This is from your husban
Almon this is from your father
     B Brock
     so good By to you

[penciled in] [1-24-63]

Mrs [Sara?] Ann Brock
Perry Center Shiawasee
			Co

		Michigan


This letter was taken
out By Mrs Buck and
finding it was not for
her She [returned?] it
and I have Sealed
it up and preserved
it for the [illegible]
[a?] [illegible]    W P [Laney?]