(San Antonio Texas
		(Dec 3d 1865
Dear wife
		I now seat myself to pen
a fiew lines to you in answer to yours of
Nov 12th which i recieved to day. and i can tell
you that i was glad to hear from you. i am
well at present, and i hope when this reaches you
it will find you all enjoying the same good health
in greenbush. i have got back to the company
again and have been on guard once. the duty
is very heavy on the men that are in camp
there is so many out on detail and what
are here have just the same duty to do as
if the whole regiment was here.
		Major Gen Merrit and Mizner are
going to leave here in the morning. for
the north. the band are going with them as
fer as Austin. there was eighty men went
from our regiment to Austin to take some
horses out there for the 6th U.S. Cavalry
which are coming here and as soon as they
get here i think that we will get started for
home. the mustering officer says that all the
volunteer troops that are here will be discharged
first as fast as they can. in your letter you
spoke about our living. well we do have
the poorest rations since we came here that
we have had since we have been in the
service and the least of them. but we
get along as well as we can we have to
buy a good share of our living and pay
a very big price for everything that we get
or else do without just as we choose.

	     You can tell Mr. Hollister that
i went over to the 2d Inft yesterday and i found
his brother he is well and he says that he
has wrote three or four times but has not
recieved any answer from him. he is color
seargeant he belongs in Co "I" tell him
that his brother wants him to write to him
his address is the same as mine. only the
company and regt
	I was weighed last night my weight
is (146 ½) one hundred forty six pound and a half.
so you see that i am just as fleshy as i
was when i was at home. i guess it is
the [warnsy?] hard tack that makes us fat.
	 	In this letter i will send
a rose that i picked yesterday the 2nd of
dec which i never seen before in any place
but the folks are making garden here all
the time now i must close for this time
write as soon as you get this no more
at present but remain your loving husband

				Wm Eaegle

E.A.E.