[penciled in]       [– 3-9-64
		     X  (Alexandria)]

March   the  9  -  -  1863
Dear Wife sence i ReCeived
your letter it has [Put?]
A new spirit in me
And i will answer this letter
That i got of almons i was
glad to hear from home
And hear that you Was all
Well my health is verry
good at present But
Then i dont feal very happey
i hav met With a Bad loss
i had thirty to dollars in Cash
Taken out of my napsack
And it is gon to hell
And i think and i am shure
that it Was the men that
Was in our tent and i am
in hopes that i Can git some
Track of it We hav
wrote in difrente PlaCes 

To se if i Cant git
some track of it
i hav Writen a good many
Letters to you and i could
Not git eny answer from
Eny of them and i sWore
That i Would not Write
Eny more letter to you
but i got one to day
And so i Will answer it
i Wish that i could git
Letters from you oftner
Then i do and as often
As you Write to me
[Jest?] so often i will Write
To you now see if you
Cant Write oftner to me
We are yet incamped near
alaxander garding this sittey
And Probley we will
stay hear all next sumer
     And maby longer

    We Cant tell how
Long We Will stay hear
Their is a good many
That is sick in the
Hospittles and som dies
most evry day and Will
As long as theas doctors
stays hear i hap that
they Wont stay long hear
   BeCaus they kill more
Then they Cure one has
Died to day his name was
George Wilson he died With
The infermation on the lungs
i tell you that their
Haint meny that goes
up to that hospittle
Ever gits out a live
No their haint one yet
i Wish this War Would 
Come to a close
And We all at home

Tell uncle Baker
That i Will Write a few
Lines to you Weare
EnCamped close By your
Negro Pets and if you
think more of them then
i do i Wish that you Would
Come out and take Care
of them BecCaus i hav
got tierd of taking Care
of them for you
Theas pets is Black as hell
Their so Black that it
makes the day light
As Black as a Coal
i tell you that their
aint meney Republicans
Hear now and What
is left is a dwindeling
A [Way?] their haint much
Left of them now
Bengmon Brock