As I have just written to Lewis I thought I would try and pen you a few lines hooping that they will [find] you in the best of health and enjoying your self—and I wish I was there with you.
Dear brother I hardly know what to say to you in this letter for it is my first one to you but it will not be my last I should have written to you before but I am not a great hand at written and I have ben very buisy fixing my tent for this winter and I hope you will forgive me and in the future I will do better and I hope we may meet again in this world and now as it is getting very late you must ecuse this short letter this time—and I hope to here from [you] soon. I send you my love and best wishes. Good by from
Your Brother, Sergt Thomas P SawyerP.S. if I knew your addrss I should not send it this Way. Good by Brother.