Camp Falmouth  Va.                                                                          

            Jan 15^th    1863                    

                                    

To start on I would like to know what ailes you or all of you I have not heard from any of you in a week or more perhaps the maile has got misscarried.

 

            Well as for health I dont ask for any better than I now stand in & will be glad if those few lines will find you in as good health as I am. Father I feel Bulley to night & presume you will say how so. well because Bill sits again by my side I have bin intirely lost evory since he went away but thank the Kind Lord he is once more diliverd safe to this small 64^th which is to be pitted. Well God have mercy on the rest & deliverd safe to their Homes 

 

I begin this letter to night & shall not send it untill I hear from you & perhaps that will be in the morning the wind just rakes fire right down now & has done a great deal of damage to day has burnt up one camp to day not far from here &c. &c. Bill Wimple is getting quite tuff again guess he will stand it with us now for a while again I am verry glad he has got back again the is one mess of potatoes left & a little butter & chease & the sucatash yet so he will not get cheated out of the whole yet he left Hank C. More to the Convalesent Camp rather thin & said he ought to have his Discharge. he saw J. Sanders & [?] at Washington in the Hospital was in the same 

 

Well Frank Mackhenley has got his discharge & come to see us so I will send a little package of traps home & this letter I shall erge him to come & see you so you must do well with him you will have a Bulley visit he is a Bulley felow. well 2 letters as I expected from you will stop & take the news good luck to you. well I was a little deceived in it finding a different hand writing in one I want you to kep what I send home except the pocket book & that is one that Ephraim Green had & I have saved it for his Folks as Bill Wimple said it was not worth expressing so he took the things out of it & handed it to me now hand it to Ira or some of the rest 

 

I am perfectly Mad & Disgusted at that sneek of a Lockeridge I have sent long ago for the Boots & a box & now you will haft to wait for them or take a misserable pair you need not go a neer him again I can ware shoes if you get any go some whares else now. I told you to have them in readiness I am not agoing to fool round with the darnd roobing theaf. he is a perfect scoundrel. I drawed a pair of shoes a bout 3 weeks ago & one of them is just rady to drop off of my foot. well I shall have to stop for my paper is short I got the package of paper &c &c. we expect pay before long again. the so write often Ephraim E. Brown To Father Mother Brother & Sister Sarah [?] Deloria Brown

 

Send me a Stick of Blue ceiling wax & one of red next time. E.E.B.

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