Benton Barrack
Feb 2, 1862
Dear Brother
	I received
yours of the [illegible]
and was happy to hear
from you I am well and
harty and hope that 
this may find you the
same, the weather is
pretty cold here now
but thare is no snow
of any amount the boys
from that part is all
sound Albert has got
over his home sickness
the mumps is going the
the rounds John Ackerson
Edwards and Andrews 
has had them
thare has ben 
a few cases of
small pox in
the regiment one
fatal, but they have got it
stoped now and have vacsin
ated the whole regiment
Thare is no prospect now
of our being discharged
if our Brigadier General
[Granger] does not play some 
game to get out of it
we will go to Kansas
with Jim Leane but he
does not want to go
that Leane is the one that
figuard so in the Kansas
troubles but as for the 
privations of life so
far we live on the top
shelf have a good bed
to sleep on, well to tell
the whole we live like
fighting cocks
If I can rais the 
money to spair I will
have my picture taken
but you can not get
any kind
of a picture
for less than a dollar
and if I aint carefull
I shall [run?] a shore
before we get our next
payment but you shall have it

	No more at present
	Yours as ever
	Harrison