Page 2 April 4, 1862

After a long and toilsome days march
we do not feel like writing, for we are
wearied with fatigue, and have few accommodations,
as for the news of the war you
are much better informed than we are
for we are cobbined, cribed, confined, bound in
and get to see few papers therefore we cannot
post ourselves, I do not think I am in
duty bound to render an apology for
the long intervals of often silence that
pass between us. No, not even to my
mother, for she does not know all as
she would not so importune me.

I am glad to here you have bought
the mare for she is a noble beast and
you cannot lose money in the purchase.
Horses must rise in value as shure
as there will be a morrow for the
drafts made for military purposes
are so incessent that it cannot
be otherwise and I am shure
that a year hence you can sell
her for a half hundred dollars