March   the  - 1 -    1863
My Dear Wife it is With great
Plasure to Write a few lines home
To you to let you no how i
Am at present my health
is very good at present
Their is a good meny that cant
say their health is good
The hospittles is full of sick now
And their is some dies most evry
day i tell you it is very siCkley
Hear: in Camp the most of the
isckness now is Bad Coals you
Can hear them Coff eny Whare
in the Ridgment one thing makes
it wors hear it is so Changeable
one day it will Be Cald and Wet
and other days it Will be Warm
and that is What makes it so sickley
I Write very often to you
but you dont Write to me a tall

And what the Reasen is i Cant tell
i hav hurd from your nabors
And they say that you git
my letters evry one of them
And why you dont Write i Cant tell
All the Rest of our nabors
That lives Round their
gits letters Regular from home
i have drawed my pay and
i dar not send my money
Home untill i git a letter
from home i tell you that
i never Will send my money
Home untill you Write to me
i Can keepe my money and
Eat it up and engoy my money
We dont git much news hear
A Bout the war their haint much
A going on that i can hear of
We hurd that they had drafted
in that town i Would like to
Hear how they feal on the subjeck

       I think that they must
feal vry Cheap and i gess
now they Wish that they had
enlisted Before the draft Come
but as long as they Would not
Eat [Cabidy?] when it was warm
And now they hav to take up
With Cold Broth and i gess they
Will find out their is a difrence
Between Cold and Warm
i hav hurd from adline folks
And they was all well
Now theas few lines that
I now Write to you is the
The last letter that i Will write
untill i git a letter from you
you can depend on that
This is my mind that you Will find
in theas few lines i am enclined
To not spend much more time
in Writing absent lines                  
Bengman Brock