Devalls Bluff Ark Mar 27 1865
	Dear folks at home
		The mail
boat came in last night. and
will soon go out so I will write
this morning, I feel pretty well
except a diarea, I shall have to
give up eating meat entirely it
does not agree with me. it aids
in giving me a diarea, I want
Sauce of some kind to go with my
bread and coffee I am going to try
and get some dried apples, or peaches
The boys are all pretty well,
Last week we were ordered to tare
our small log house down and
build larger, we finished it saturday
It now contains ten persons instead
of four. An arrangement I do not
like. Size about 13 X 15,


[illegible in original]. Hess. Andrew Finch. Shedd
Bramhall. H Perry & some you dont know
are in it, The conversation is so
entertaining there. that I came up
to the Chapel to write this letter
Bradley & Grace came here
thursday last week, returning
on the same boat thursday night
It was the day that we tore our
house down and I got but little
time to see them, they both look
well, the south must agree better
with Grace than the north
I went to the boat and saw them
off.
I have drilled but little yet, I was
excused three days to work on
our house
The boys have not been paid for
over Six month. There is a report


this morning that the  paymaster is
here. won't the Suttlers have to [take?] it
We bought some nails for our house
they were 25 cts per lb.
There are so many in our shanty.
that I cannot conveniently work
at watches. besides we have no [illegible in original]
window
Yesterday I went down town to the
dedication of the Post Chapel.
       were
there ^ five or six ministers there. some
pretty smart ones
The building was put together by
a detail of twelve men from different
regiments, they worked four weeks
the minister working with them
and he says. the church was put
up without any swearing. with
perhaps on exception, and he would
not say positively that the man


Swore but it sounded a good deal
like it and the circumstances
were very favorable, the man
having cut his finger
But I hardly think it possible.
for if all the words used in the
army were sorted out nearly one [tenth?]
of them would be oaths.
Send all the reading matter you 
can, it helps to pass time pleasently,
I am going to send for the [Phre.?]
Journal - read it and send it on,
Take part of my bounty money to pay
my expenses there. & I will send
some to replace it. when convenient.
	        send
If you should ^ anything by express
send Maple Shugar, dried fruit, Butter
if canned tight, and any thing that is
good, [illegible in original] Fred P. Warren.