FrederickTown
			          January the 11th /64
     Mr. Eagle I was some what surprised on receiveing a
    letter from you but it was verry acceptibel for who
   is not glad to hear from an old friend and I expect that
  we are friends  I am well and I hope that these fiew lines
 may find you enjoying the same good helth it is verry
verry cold [heer?] now and has ben ever since Newyear and there has been good slaying
hear ever since the Sunday after newyear but there is no boys to take us a Slaying
and So the Snow does not do us mutch good uncle [James Sargent?] lives in
the same place that he did when you was hear Marry Ann Sargent dide and was
[bearried?] just one year the Monday after newyear and laura Jane dide just one
year and two months before Mary Ann dide Lucinda she went out to Illinois to
uncle james [illegible in original] to Teach School and she got a Dollar a day last
Summer end this Winter she gets a Dollar and a Shilling a day [illegible in original]
Said they was a building a Church for the use of the regiment
and you expected you [Could?] have a dance there through to week
and preaching Sunday indeade a [real?] good dance would
be verry acceptible to me for it would be quite a rairity for
dances are verry scarse around hear I want You to excuse this
haf a sheat of paper and yello envellop fer i had no other I
must close for the present I hope you will look over bad 
writing and spelling Yourre respectifully from, Mattie Ebersole