(Brownsville. Station. Ark
	(Thursday. Jan 8th 1865
Dear Wife
	I now seat myself to write a 
fiew lines to you. to let you know how it am
getting along here. i am well at present and i
hope when this reaches you it may find you all
enjoying the same good health. the mail came
in here to night. but i did not get any letters
so i thought i would write again to you. Abe
got a letter from lois and john dated the 24th
of last month they were well when they
wrote. i was down to little Rock last Monday
there was a fire there new years which nearly
destroyed one whole block. and the high water
has broke the pontoon bridge acrost the river
there and they have to run a ferry now
	I have spent the dullest christmas
and new years this year that i ever saw
for i was on duty both days and if i had
not have been there was nothing going on here
and i an not acquainted with any of
the folks that lives around here so i stayed
at the office all day, and enjoyed my self as
best as i could. but i went to church in the

evening. we mustered for our pay on last 
saturday. and now there is six months wages
due. besides our bounty. but i do not know
when we will get our pay. but i hope it will
not be a great while. for i do not know what
you will do there. but i hope you will get 
along as well as you can. and as soon as
i do get my pay i will send it to you. for
i can get along without money here. better
than you can there
		Jan 6th /65
    I will try and finish my letter i should
  have finishted it last night but there was
a message came, and i had to go to Brownsville 
in the night and i did not get back until after
ten oclock. and then it was to late to write
i never saw the roads as bad as they are
now. and it is still raining it commenced to
rain yesterday morning and it has not stoped
since. and there is a little snow with the
rain. the first snow that i have seen this
winter. but i guess it will not snow much at
least not enough to make sleighing. i expect the
folks would be surprised if there should be
snow enough to make good sleighing for i

dont think that the most of then never saw
a sled yet. and they would not know what
to make of that. you can tell O.P. Gillson
that them two men in our company have
had their trial but i have not heard their
sentence yet i was called upon last Tuesday
for a witness against one of them and i
think it will go hard with him. i think he
will be sent to Alton military states prison.
and probable lose some of his pay. it looks
rather hard to see them punished so for they
have both got a family at home depending
upon their earnings for support. but i do not
know but what it is all right. it will learn
them to behave themselves. if they ever do
get back to the company. Steve an john
are driving team yet. but they come over
to the company almost every night and stay
for two or three hours and they first raise
the old [harry?] when they are there.
	I do not stay at the company
only at night i board here and we live
as well as any one need wish to. but i
had a little rather be at home.
	there is a woman here that pretends

 to be a mans wife. but if she is she does
not act very much like it. for she is running
around with all of the officers in the regiment.
and her man has to stand back. they stay in
the next roon fron the telegraph office, and we
can hear them carousing nearly every night
until about ten oclock.
	when you write again you must
tell me how you enjoyed yourself new years and
christmas, and what was going on around there
i recieved a letter from rachel last mail
which is the second one that she has wrote to
me since i left home. i begin to think that
the war is about (played out) if we do not
have any bad luck. i dont think it will last
more than five or six months at the longest
for the rebels can not stand it to have
so much property and still keep on fighting.
		[Irene?] said that when i
left home that i would be back in less
than six months but she was mistaken, for
it has been almost ten months since i left home
and it seems as long as three years had ought
to, but i have only got two years more to
serve if i stay my time out but if i do have
to stay my time out i will have a furlough next
summer if possible. now i must close for
this time. write as soon as you get this and
as often as you can no more at present
but remain your loving husband.
			Wm Eaegle

Emma. A. Eaegle