Dear Brother

I will try
to write a fiew lines
to let you know
where I be and what
I am doing and how
I get a long I get
a long pretty I Enlis-
ted last Monday and
came down Tuesday
am in the Cavalry
Mother and Ellen
made quite a time
about my comming
down here Mother said
that you should not
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Enlist if she could
help it and you
had better not think
about comming I like
pretty well we have
to practis on foot
now dont know when
we shal get our
horses I shall have
to leav of[f] now giv
my love to all the
folks so goodby

A M Brackett