(Shreveport La
	(july 7th 1865
Dear wife
	I now seat myself
to write a fiew lines to you
in answer to your two letters
of june 16th and 19th which i
recieved to day. and i was
glad to hear from home.
i am well at present and
i hope when this reaches
you it will find you enjoying
the same good health.
        we were greatly dissapointed
about comming home when we
were at Baton Rouge for we
all thought that we would
be at home on the fourth
of july. but we sliped up on
that we were at this place
and i was on guard. but
we will not be here a great
while longer before we will

be ready to start for texas
and it will take us six
or eight weeks to march
through there and it will
be a very hard march on
account of the weather being
so hot and we have to
cross the plains where we
cannot find any water for
twenty or thirty miles which 
                         s
will be the wor^t of all.
	The sick men that
was not able to ride through
have gone around by water
sam shaw. and Elder mudge 
have gone mudge was quite
sick before he left they started
yesterday. sam has been quite
sick but the cause of his
sickness was drinking and if
he does not stop drinking
so hard it will kill him 
sometimes

	There was one of our
company died this morning
of thyphoid fever. he came
from Maple Rapids. his 
name was john Cable.
	[Lem?] was just over
here and he says that we
are going to start on our
long journey next Monday
morning. and if we do i will
not get a chance to write to
you again before we leave 
here. but i will write every
chance that i get while on
the road and then the
first place that we come to
where i can mail it i will 
send it. but you must write
as often as once a week and
as much oftener as you can
for i want to hear from
you every day if i could
	we have all the ripe

apples and peaches and
green corn that we want
just by going after them
	You must not
let Harriet Kirby plague
you. but i guess you are
able to hold your own [row?]
you can tell Harriet
that i guess that she did
not keep both of her feet
in one stocking if she had
she would have been better
off now. you must let me 
know about that money
as soon as it gets there
and my St Johns paper you
can have it sent to greenbush
for they do not come to me
once in a month. now i
must close for this time write
soon an as often as you
can no more at present but
remain your loving husband
		Wm Eaegle
E.A.E.