Dear Wife,

I once more taken my pen in hand to let you know that I am will and doing well hoping this letter will find you and the children doing well my horse is standing the trip finely I am in Texas 50 miles of Bonham OK if the indians comes in thare and Billy Clark moves his horses down move mine and write true statements to me about the indians and what you know to be so You must do the best you can the Boys are still deserting from every command that I can hear from they are still expecting a fight up near Fort Smith and connand are this side of Ft Smith 30 miles you had better try and buy you a saddle it makes no odds what the price is if you can get one to suit you. confederate money is going down any how I think that prospect for peace is better than ever I know so I think again at the first of March will tell the tail you must write offan and direct your letters to Bonham Gurleys Regt Our Regt is 175 miles in the nation I will be uneasy until I hear from you about being with out water You must write ofan it so very seldom that I will get one from you. I expect the way things are mand $5.00 for staying all night and I hope to beig there at that Only I remains your husband. K Brawn

Camp Bankhead July 26, 1863

My Dearest Companion

I reached camps yesterday and am well and hope that these few lines may reach you and the children all well I came by Mothers and found her sick but she was on the mend when I left Joseph’s baby was very sick also with chills and fever the ballance of the family was all well there are a great deal of sickness in that country the Doctors are kept busy all the time I have no news to write you as to when for sertain we will leave here but it is thought that we will not stay here long there are four of our companies that is gone out on a Scouting expedition and it is likely that they will not come back to this place before we leave here it is altogeather owing as to what dicoveries they make I will try though to keep you posted about that and will inform you when and where we are going I suppose that when we leave here we will go to fort Gibson or in that direction to reinforce Cooper we have a very nice place here to camp at we have good water we are on red river some fifteen miles above Bonham and when you write to me direct your letters to Bonham Gurleys Regiment Company F and direct all your letters to Bonham until I direct you to change the Post Office you must excuse this short letter as I have just got to camps and have nothing new to write you must take good care of your self and children and I will try to do the same write to me often and I will answer all of your letters I will close my letter by assigning myself your loving husband until death Caleb Brown

Dear Wife I received your letter this morning which give me great gladness to hear that you were well your letter found me not very well though I am able to get about attend to my horse wel Sarah I have no news of importance to write to you I begin to think that you had forgotten or something was the mater for this is the first letter that I have received from you since I left home and I have wrote to you and this is the first answer that I have got from you I was sorry to hear that my stock was doing so bad though that does not bother me half like the Indian news and if time keeps on the way they are I will try and assist you for my home and family is dearer to me than the Confederacy and all that is in it I do not know how to advise you about my horses for I don't see anyway for you to move them all the advise that send it there as quick as you can for I may have use for it before long have it stocked and give it a whipping and tell it to stay at home well Sarah I believe I have told you all the news that I have no of for the present write soon and believe me to be your true and affectionate husband until death

Calif Brown to

Sarah Brown

Give mifs MCeiney my love and compliments tell her that Davey Bishop is well and tell her that I have not heard of jim and bob since I left

I Jeff Meraney send his respects to you Mifs Brown Give my love to all the girls (Brown's have 5 boys not girls) and if you see any of my folks tell them that I am not well I have been in the hospitle a month Me and Calif is boath in the hospitle together

Your friend Jeff Meraney

My Dearest Wife

I attempt to write you a few lines this evening to let you know how I am getting along I am quite unwell at this time I was taken with a severe Diarrear but I am better of it now and I hope to be up in a few days I have no news of importance to write you we are expected to leave here in a few days but I do not know whether it is so or not it is the report in camps that there is an Armistice of ninety days been ordered but I believe that there are few who believes the report I hope it is the case for if there is an armistice I I think in all probability we will have Peace which is one thing that is very much desired by all of us. This is the fourth letter I have sent you and I have not received any word from you since I landed here and I begin to think the time very long and am getting very anxious to hear from you I feel Satisfied that you have written long before now and the falt must by in the post masters when you receive this write to me and give me all the news for I hear Some bad news above in the frontier Counties also I hear Some news about Leigie Bivens and I want you to give me all the news I want to See you and the children very much but I do not know when that time will come I hope it will come soon you must take care of your self and the children the

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best that you can and I will try to do as much for myself I do not wish you to be uneasy about me for I have some good friends here that will give me all the attention that is necessary and will write for me any time I wish it Mr Sparks wishes me to Say to you that the promises he made to you once about writing for me he has not forgotten and sends his respects to you and family direct all of your letters to Boham and direct them to me in Gurleys Reginment Company F (Might be PFC) and direct all in this way until I write you to change I will close my letter I will remain your affectionate husband until death C.Brown

dont forget to write

August the 20 A D 1863

Deare and beloved wife I Seat my Self to drop you a few lines to Enform you that I am on the mend and will Soon be Abel to perform duty hoping when thes few lines coms to hand they will find you and the Children well and doing well I have had the intermitten feaver the Dockters Ses and know I am hardly Abel to get about with my kidneys I want you to buy you a Sadel if you can Miss Beal has one if She will Sell it don't Stop for price if it is 75 dollars and I dont want you to Sell any more beef for I think we heir Sam up I can by your Mothers and She was very Sick butt was getting better when I left Joseph was ganin to jeferson with a Drove of horses he was Drafted and I dont no whether he got out or not

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I have never Seen any thin til I com her we drill 6 hours Evry da infandry drill Col Gurley has left us he was orderd to reprt at milligan to general mcgruder and we dont no whether he will com back or not the boys is all nutty disSadisfied A heap of them has left her and gon home to their familys and I think a heap more of them will leave we heir orderd to leave her next Sunday to Reenforce General Coopper their is A heap of the boys Ses they want Cross Red river unless their is some protection maid for the frontier I under Stand that Boyds Son was kiled on the head of Coryelle Creek and I want to no the truth of the matter and I want you to Rite all the nus on the fronter I want you to rite to me how you heir getting a long and what Sam Morgan is doing and whether he had to leave or not

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I want you to take good Care of my horses they hadent herd of Georg they dident no wher he was give all my friends my best Respeck I have never herd A word from you Senc I left home I am Just like A fish out of water my life is no Sadisfaction to me kiss my little babs for me and tell them their paw wants to See them try and take care of your Self and do the bes you can So nothing more at present I remain your Affectenat husband until Death from C Brown to his dear and beloved wife Sariah Elizabeth Brown

Sary I Send you a Song ballad I want you to learn

Camp Choctaw Nation

Nov the 18th 1863

Dear wife and Children once again I have an opportunity of writing you a few lines to inform you that I am well at the present time truley hoping that when these few lines comes to hand they may find you all well and a doing well also to let you no whare I am we are now camped in th nation a preparing fo winter we have ben here two days there is no telling how long we will stay here we are about six miles from the river and about 26 miles from Clarksville We went threw a general inspection this morning there was an order red from general stell prohibiting eny furlows unless by his consent the General Jano told us that he had ritten to General stell to have one fourth of the men furlowed at a time if so I will try to come home I want you to get me a pair of as corse mittens as you can and send them to me as for anything else I can make out there has ben some clothing isued and will be some more in a few days I received your letter that was ritten to me and Davy Bishop you rote about the negroes a cutting up thar I think you had better ceep uncle Charley untill I come home The news has come in to camps that they have killed Loyl Bivins I recon that you will here it before now There was a man come in to camps yesterday rite from your mothers they are all well and Jo? is at home yet I want you to do the best you can and not work to hard take the world easy I heard from george he was down in the lower end of Louisana you rote to me that you waid the baby but did not say how mutch he waid C Brown

I want you to kiss him for me