Shreveport Louisiana
	june 30th 1865
Dear Wife
	      I now seat myself
to write a fiew lines to you as
it will probably be sometime before
i can write again i am
well at present and i hope
when this reaches you it will
find you enjoying the same
good health. we left Baton Rouge
on the [18th? 19th?] of this month and
came up red river as far as
we could and then we got off
at a place called elexandria and
we staid there two or three days
before we could get any boat to
come any farther. [illegible in original] and then
we got on another boat and
came up as far as granny Core
and from there we marched
here by land we were four
days comming to this place it is
[80? 90?] miles we got here last Wednesday

about noon. we have not had
any mail for a long time
and the elder says that we will
not get mail again until we
get to the Rio grande which will
be about forty days yet and i
do not know but it will more
than that for it is over five
hundred miles from here. and
we will not get there before
the middle of August if we go
at all the troops here are about
to raise a mutiny for they do
not want to go off there now
the war is over. the 10th Ill
cavalry have refused to do duty
and they have been trying
to shoot their colonel and they
have killed his nigger. but
if our regiment will go i will
go but it will be against my
will but i shall never go into
Mexico unless i inlist to go there


and that i dont think i shall 
do yet awhile.
	There is going to be
big crops in this country this
season. we have had some 
green corn and ripe pears and
apples and plums. what wheat
there is down here is out and 
some of it is thrashed.
	We are having a very
hard rain storm here now
it commenced yesterday afternoon
and it is raining yet.
	                        we have to 
muster for our pay this afternoon
and then there is four months
pay due us again but i dont
expect we will get pay again until
we are mustered out of service.
but i dont think that will be
a great while now. you must
write as often as you can and
direct to New Orleans and if we 

stay here any length of time
i will write again before i
leave here. i will send you a
photograph that i had taken
at Baton Rouge before i left there
		Now i must close for
this time write often
	  good bye
		             Wm Eaegle


Emma. A. Eaegle