Febuary  the  3 -   -   1863
my Dear Wife it is With great
Plasure that i comunicate theas
few lines to you to let 
you no that i have Bin sick
But now i feal Bette and
i hope that i Will soon git Round
A gain= i am quite deaf it
is more then i can tell What
makes me so deaf inless it is
By gitting cold in my head
i haint dun eny duty in
over a weak and i gess that 
it will Be a weak longer
i gess Before i dew much duty
Their aint much a goin on
Hear = onley one thing over and
over We dont hear much a
Bout the War i Presume that
you hear as much a Bout
The War as we do

When you write to me i
Waunt you to tell me
you are a gitting a long
And how the nabors is
And tell me how the stock
look at home and evry thing
[Elce?] almon how dus your
Hay look this winter
And i Waunt you to tell me
What you are a doin this Winter
i am in hopes that this
War wont last long Becaus
i Waunt to git home and
if i [wonCe?] git out of this
sCrape i hope that you will
nevr git ketched a gain
i wish that i had listen
To you Before i had enlisted
i did not think When i
Enlisted that i was a goin to
figh for the negro But when
i got hear i found out

     that i Was agoing to fight
i jest turned my coat
And now salleyann i am
A stiff dimacrat and i never
Will vote a nuther RepuBlican
in my life a gain
And i Waunt you to tell
them RepuBlican that they 
Never would vote that ticket
A gain if they would jest
Come out hear and see for
your selves and When you
got hear you Would vote
A strait union tickett
evry team you se has got
A Black devel a driving it
They have the Prefrence of
The white man and the
damd Black Cuses Will stick
up their head and strut a
long – as Big as life
it is tuf to hav them
Blacks over us

Their was a man died
last night With the 
small Pox and his name
was frank Pettie their is sevrel Cases of the
small Pox in Camp
Their is a good many
Complaining of Bad Coals
Now i Will fetch my 
letter to a Close
from your husban
Bengamon Brock to his
Wife sallyann Brock
And Almon Brock
our sun good By
To you all
Alman i Will send you
 A Ring that Came out
of a sesesh [Boan?] now keep
This untill i see you a gain 
P W H