(Brownsville. Station. Ark.
	(Sunday evening Nov 13th /64
Dear Wife
	     I now seat myself to 
write a few lines to you in
answer to yours of Oct. 28th which i
have just recieved to night. it found 
me well, and i hope when this
reaches you it will find you all
enjoying good health. the regiment
have not been heard from since
they left here it is not six daz
since they left camp and we do 
not look for them back before
next Thursday. you are afraid that 
the war will never end, well 
i hope it never will. until it 
can be honorable ended and
i think if lincoln is reelected we
will have an honorable peace
before next spring but if Meclelan
is elected we may have peace sooner
but it will not last long for he
would recognize the south and that

would make a bigger war
than there ever has been yet
and it would not look very
well for him to acknowledge
their independnance after fighting as
long as we have and loosing so
many men trying to restore the
Union and i think if you will 
look at it right you will think
so to. but i know what is the
matter it is party. you do not
like to leave the party. but i
should think if you would read
the st johns herald you would 
leave the party at once. for
that is the strongest copperhead
paper that i ever saw, and if
the soldiers were at home a short
time now i think they would 
visit that press for a short time
at least, when you write again
tell me the numbers of all of
them papers and then i will
send and get all of the back
numbers for i have forgotten what

        numbers are behind. but i
        sent you a paper that you
can read when you get the
blues. it is one that the elder gave
me he is one of the best men
that you ever saw. there was a
funeral this afternoon   it was
one of company. [I.?] of our regiment
the band came out and marched 
to the grave and it is the most
solemn music that you ever heard
(the dead march) the boys in the 
band are at a house now playing
they make good music i tell you
there is nearly twenty men in the
band. there is three from our
company, sam shaw got a letter 
from Leander Ferris which brought
the sad news to him of thomas’es
death. he feels considerable down
now. his health is getting better now
but he will have to be careful or
he will not get well yet. this is
the third letter that i have written
to you since last tuesday and one of

them was a long one but i
like to answer all the letters that
i can get so i will not complain.
	I am on guard again
to day and i have a short time to
spend in writing to you before i go back
to the guard house and then i can
sleep tomorrow. the news here in camp
is that prices army is all scattered and they
are crossing the railroad both above and
below here but we have no force to send
from here, or we might capture a great
many of then. them three stamps came
through all right. and i am very much
obligeg for then. the weather is very
pleasant here in the daytime but
we have some cool nights here, but
i dont suppose they are as cold as
it is up there. Abe breubaker was
over here to day and i was telling
him about [lil?] coming back home and he
wanted to know if you said there was any
thing wrong with her i told him not in
that letter but i had heard of it before
but he is very [innocent?] of course you can
tell rob clark that i shall not write to
him again until he writes to me. i
have not much news to write for i suppose
that [illegible in original] will tell you all of the news better
than i can write then to you. tell perry that
steve has gone out on this scout with his
team i will not write any more at present
write as soon as you recieve this give my
respects to all no more at presant but remain
your affectionate
			Wm Eaegle
Emma,H.Eaegle