(San Antonio Texas
	(jan 26th 1866
Dear wife
	As i have a fiew
spare moments i will improve
them in writing a fiew lines
to you in reply to yours of the 
4th of this month which i have
just recieved. it found me well
as this leaves me. and i hope
when this reaches you it will find
you all enjoying the same good
health. you wanted to know
how i spent my New Years
and christmas. i will tell you
christmas i stayed all day in 
my tent. and new years i done
the same. i could not find any 
thing to enjoy myself about here.
only thinking about home and
that is but very little enjoyment
to me as long as there is no

more signs of our getting
home than there is yet or has
been. although they present to say
that there is orders here for us
to all be sent home between
this and the fourth day of march
but if we get there we will
have to start before many days.
but i dont think that we will
be kept a great while longer even
if the officers does want to. if
our regiment could get their pay 
that is due now there is more
than two thirds of the boys that
would come home with out
their discharge. but if they did
do that they would take government
property enough to pay their 
bounty that would be back
i heard some of the boys
telling an officer of our regiment
this morning that he knew

     of a good many of the boys
that would leave as soon as
they got their pay. but i guess
there is not much danger of
our getting our pay againe before
we are mustered out of the
service for good
	I expect that i shall
always remember the last day
of last year for that is the 
day that our regiment had such
a big time about having three or
four men arrested for not
blacking their boots. the trial 
is going on every day but we
dont know how they will be
sentenced for the whole of
the proceedings has to go to Gen
Sheridan to be approved or
rejected. before we will hear
any thing about it and then
it will be read at dress parade

we dont put on quite so 
much style as we use to do
before the fuss happened. and
the officers begine to feel afraid
that the boys are going to try and
release the boys that are in
prison. since we have got our
arms all back again. but i
dont think there is any such
intention among any of the boys.
but they just talk about it to make
the officers afraid they will.
	I should like to know
who then two boys were that
you spoke of in your letter. but
i dont blame then abit. the weather
is very warm here now i am
on guard to day. i have to go
on guard about twice a week.
Now i must close for this
time hoping to soon be with
you. give my respects to all
and write as soon as you get
this good bye for the present
and remain your loving husband
		             Wm Eaegle
E.A.E.