[Penciled in] [1862]
	      	      february

	Camp Benton St Louis
	    Miss Emma. D.
	      i take my pen
	      in hand to inform
	      you how i get
	      along I am well
at present and hope these
few lines will find you
in joying the same blesing
Em yo wanted to know if
i recolected Camp meting
i think i do recollect it
vary well when we went
around by [illegible letter]elsey i have
to think how we drove over
the cording bridge dont ye
mind when i got the
[illegible] at old mackfesens

Em do yo have any
fun going to dances
since we left there Em.
theadore waginer says he 
has big times with the
girls there him and matt
Stefey do yo go to school
this winter he keeps the
school this winter i supose
thare is lots of speling
schools i suppose Charley
Cook is maryed to miry
Chapell & Bill adams to
an wetherby Ely [tinklepan?]
to frankmiler
^[two crossed out words] Em I supose
they have big times now
dont they it is snowing this 
evening a little we have good

times here i am riting
about all the time to
some of the folks at
home with these few
lines i Close give my
respects to all the girls
in the place i giv my
love to yo Em ye must
rite to me as soon as
yo get this leter from
yore friend S Breubaker
      St Louis Mo  [1st?]
	      february the [illegible letters]
    Em ye must
                 not laugh
          at my scribling
for i am anew
hand at the Buisnss

be shore and rite
Emma i want to hear
from you i will every
time ye do