Milwaukee Jan 28th 1862 

Dear Wife 

I, again Seat myself to 

        drop you another line I have 

     been looking for two or three days 

  for a letter from you but have not Rec,d 

any yet we are Still Boarding at the 

Central Hotel And I dont know how 

long we will Remain here perhaps it 

will be 2 or 3 weeks before we get into 

Camp, we are all tolerable well at this 

time Some few of the boys have Bad colds 

we have had Some quite cold weather 

since we have been here with about 

a foot of Snow yesterday it Stormed 

all day both raining and Sleeting and 

Snowing and it is Drizling of rain to day 

we Received our Clothes yesterday all 

but our Shirts, we will perhaps get them 

in a few days; Since the boys got their 

new clothes they dont hardly know each 

         [other 
But Some of the boys did not get their 

   Clothes any too Soon for instead of 

    Badax Tigers they had about become 

[Bare assed] Tigers; not having brought 

many clothes with them nor left many 

at home; the boys generally keep pretty 

Steady for the reason that they have not 

mutch money to Spree [?] and carouse on 

Walt Odell was put under guard the other 

   com 

morning for imbibing too mutch Sod [illegible] 

whiskey on a company treat; having 

misrepresented things and doubled the dose 

two or three times; his punishment was not 

Severe but Enough to give him the hint 

in case of future offences; Ham [?] 

Cummings got good Gloriously and 

limber drunk last night for the 

first time Since he left home he will 

be pretty Strictly watched; dont make 

thing too public that I write about the 

boys we have just one hundred and one men 

now in our company and considered the best 

company out of the nine that is here 
Arch Morison got released and went 

home Several days ago; he was tickeled 

[illegible] almost to death when he 

found that he could go home for a Sicker 

child never recovered and I think it 

will be a long time before he will take 

another contract      I think it is very 

probable that we will not get away from 

here until March or April I will get 

quite tired of Staying here So long but 

we must wait the motions of goverment 

I think I will get a furlough and 

come home once before we leave here 

Milwaukee is quite a large City mutch 

larger then I Expected to find with 

many large well Built Buildings 

Some of which are Six Stories high 

Write as Soon as you get this and tell 

me how you are getting along and all the 

rest of the news    I Believe I have 

nothing Else to write this time so 

good Bye        Thos. J. Davis 

       To Lucinda. M. Davis