April the 15     63

 

            Ever beloved Cosin i take the present opportunity of wrighting you a few lines for the first since i saw you last this leaves mee in good health at this time & hoping that those few lines may find you and familey enjoing the Same Blessings. i have nothing new to wright to you at this time for evry thing is geting old with mee at this time but i will give you the best i have at this time. this Company is in very good health at this time Windfield is Complaining with the Rheumatism in his Legs but i think he will get Strate again when the weather brakes we have had a great deal of Rain and our House Leeked so that we could not keep dry this is a very nise day after so mutch Rain Corn looks very well here they are working it over. i have saw some stalks of corn around camps that was knee high. their is some talk of the wheat having the Rust about Jackson. as i was on my way / to this place i saw wone Fiel that had the Rust, but i thought it was caused from overflow of Water Corn is worth about too Dolars a Bushel Bacon $1.00 Pork 60 cts a lbs Beef 30 cts lbs Chickens $1.50 Eggs $1.50 a Doz but we get plenty of Bacon & corn Bred to eat but it is like the mans Dinner Just a nuff and non to Spair we Buy some Milk at two Bitts a canteen full. & wee by some Shillots at one Dollar a handfull. if we could not have so mutch guard & Picke Duty to do we would fare finley. theire is some talk of us going to Okloma but it may be faulce for their is nothing that i can blive. but i think we will not stay here a great while for i here nothing of the yankeys evry thing is ling still here more so than it has bin since i have bin here we would be glad to get off from this Place for we cant get any good water to in a mounth or too the River water is the Best at this time it is mutch the cooles at this time / The Boys caches a goo many Fish they go a giging and some times they will kill as many gar Fish as they can carry if we could get gigs we would have plenty of gar gar is worth from 10 cts to 15 cts pr lbs we eat all that we can git their is some Turkeys here but we cant get to hunt them. this is the ruffest country i eve saw in my life the hills here is Just as far bfore the Read Brake Hills as the Read Brake Hills is before the Hills at Home and the cane in places is so thick that a Cow cant get threw i think if we stay here we will get plenty of fat Beef to eat we are glad to get a mess of beef now wee had a fine mess of Polk yestryday we are glad to get any kind of greens their is onley five of us in the mess J Amons J Lowe Feinster & two Eggers we get along very well to gather we have to go to the Ditches evry third night and lie on the grund and some times we have no fire /

 

Our Company is about as big as it ever was the wounded is all back John Darnell come in a few days ago and Brot a old man to get him in as a substitute but has not got it fixted yet. so has Perry Brooks brot a substitute Bob Givens is come for Pery Brooks at tunty too hundard Dollar i have herd that E D Minter is coming to our Company i am glad to here that he has to tri it a while.

 

i want you to wright to mee and tell mee how crops is and wheat in peticular we have not had but fore frosts since i come here i do not think we have had a killing Frost since i come here

 

I will come to a close for the present

 

I am excusable for i have bin sick nearly all of the time since i have bin here but not Bad

 

            Wright Soon & Oblige your humble Servant yours Trly

                                    H A Egger       to W Egger

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