.MTA.MTI

Washington Feb 3rd 1862

Dear Brother

                    I received your 

letter in due time and I must

say that I have not received a letter that was so interesting to me as yours was. Some folks have a mistaken idea about what kind of letter soldiers want writen to them, such generaly tell us of our privations and hard ships we will have to endure and the dangers we will encounter. They think we have not found them yet but mind you soldiers do not want such letters. They wanto know what is going on in the domestic [??] and in the barn yard and wheather sister Lizzie grows or not and who keeps school and who goes. Hows with [??] from spelling school and wheather they have good meeting or not and all the rest of the every day news. A little good advise does come amiss to a boy in a strange land [??] by and write you as good a letter as you did. The other night when the brigade officer was making the rounds it was very dark and just as one of