Dear wife it

is with plesier that I

take mi pen in hand

to answer your kind

and welcom letter

that I resicved the 13

and it found me well

I wold have answerd

it soner but I was on

picket and whe stade

4 days and sins that

time I bin on other

duty well mary the

rebels are tame hare they

come to the same crick

to get water that whe

do and whe talk to

them and exchange