Received Februry the
	     3d 1865
	(Brownsville. Station. Ark
	(Saturday. Evening. jan 21st /65
Dear Wife
	     I now seat myself to
write a fiew lines to you in
answer to your kind letter of the 
7th which i recieved to night it
found me well and i hope when 
this reaches you it will find you
enjoying the same good health. but
i am sorry that you have got 
into trouble. but as i dont know
what it is about so i will not 
say any thing about it. but
when you write again you must
tell me all about it, for i
want to know how you all
get along. around there and
what the fuss was about betweene
you and [Irene?] and let me
decide which one is to blame
for i think i can settle it for
you in some way. but i will
not write to her any more if

you do not wish me
to. but i did not think that
there ever would be any trouble
between you two. i wrote a
letter to [Irene?] a fiew days ago
but she has not got it yet but
i presume she will get it before
you do this one. i am sorry
that you have the toothache so
much doe not that medicine
stop it that i sent to you i
will send some money to you
as soon as we get our pay and
then you must get then filled
if you can wait that long i do
not know how soon we will
get our pay but there is some
talk of us getting our pay now
in a short time and i shall not
be sorry for i need some money
pretty bad myself but if that
was all i could mail six
months longer but i must have
some to send to you. and if we do

     not get our pay soon i
will have to let you sell that
big watch that you have got if
you can get any where near
what it is worth. you must
be more careful about taking 
cold and exposing yourself
any more than you are
obliged to. and more particular 
in such times as that.
	About your going in the
[illegible in original] to cook for them [hands?]
i dont believe you Could stand
it. but you know best. and you
can act your own pleasure
about going. but for my part
i had rather not have you
go there. for i know what
kind of a place it is for a 
woman to go. and i do not
think that is very good wages
but probable wages are not so
good up there as they are down
here. but you can judge for yourself

and if you think you had 
ought to go you can go wether
i like it or not. you say that
father does not like it because
you do not work out for your
living it is not any of his
business. wether you work at
all as know of. and i am
like john tripp i do not want
you to work out if you can help 
it. unless it is in our own
neighborhood, and then i would 
not only to acconodate, but as
i am not there you must use
your own judgement about
such things. every time that
you say any thing about
father, i think of the night
that he came in to your house
when he was so tight. . i was
so shamed of him that i
did not know what to do
with my self. and if they 
dont like it because we got

      married they will have
to lump it for they cannot
help themselves now. but i
guess they will get over that
after while. i heard that you
have been having the ague [mark illegible in original]
	There was a man
taken up here last night that
has been dead ever since last
spring. a man came from Ill
after him and he dug him
up after dark and the coffin
was full of water and he
put it inside of another box
and i helped to carry him
this morning and put him on
the train he belonged to the
106th Ill infantry. i recieved three
letters yesterday morning one
was from lois and one from Ed one 
from your mother. and i answered
then all last night. before it
was bed time but we dont go to
bed here until ten oclock for they

are not alowed to shut the
office until ten every nigh
but that is not late after a person
gets use to it. there is a message
just came and i will have to
stop writing for the present but
i will finish it when i come
back it is not far to go. our
lieutenant is promoted to captain
and i dont know wether he will
stay in our company or not
but i hope not for he is not
liked as well as he use to be
for every [noch?] higher that he
gets the bigger he feels he has
got so now that if a man
is absent from roll call in
the morning he will make
him carry a stick of wood
for two hours in front of 
his quarters. but i am glad
i have got out of the company
now for there is too much 
style to suit me. but the
inspector general says he has 
not found a better regiment

      than ours is we are
drilled as well as almost any
regiment that you can find.
but there is no wonder for
every night at retreat roll call
the officers drills the men for 
a short time. it is raining
a little to night and is as 
dark as a stack of black cats
	Some of our regiment
went to the Bluff after horses
to take to the rock and they
got back this morning but
two of the men came near
getting drowned they have gone
on to the rock.  one of our
officers got in the water and
he lost a gold watch before
he got out. the water is very
high here now. i had heard
about jim adams getting married
Ed wrote to me about it. is 
Jim at work to davises yet
or not i heard that he was

keeping store in town
		The boys from
our place are all healthy now
i believe. steve was sick a fiew
days ago with the sick headache
but he is well now
	Our colonel has gone to
new orleans now on some
business but i do not know what
he left here the fore part of this
week. the news are the best 
now that i have seen for
some time i should not be
surprised if this war should end
in less than three months. but
i dont know how long it would
be before we would get out of
the service. there has been some
commissioners gone from washington
to richmond and some from richmond
to washington, and sherman is
destroying so much property that they
begin to think it is time to call for
peace now i must close for this
time give my respects to all and write
as soon as you recieve this and as
often as you can no more at present
but remain your devoted husband
		Wm Eaegle
Emma A. Eaegle