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In Camp near Falmouth Va. April 1st 1863
                     Dear Brother Edmund,

With pleasure to me I take my pen in hand to answer
your kind letter of the 22nd of last month. I am glad to
hear that you are agetting over your sickness and hope
before this reaches you you will be inturley well.
I am glad to tell you that I am in the enjoyment
of quite good health at present. The weather has been
very bad out here most of all lass month the day before
yesterday I commenced to snow & rain together and it
lasted most all night making the roads in a miserable
condishing. Our Colonal has been reliesed from under
arrest and is now acting Brigadear. He was under arrest
for more than 3 month. We are all glad that he is
released for the boys likes him as they know what
he is and have the fullest confidence in him as a leader.
We are agetting along first strate and what little I
have sean of the armey they all feal in good spearits
and are ready to meet the enemys of our common country
as quick as we git orders to do so. We expect to git
payed off in a little while as the government owes