have no hope of ultimate success - & to hold out now is simply fool-hardiness- that may cost many lives & the Gov much treasure.  If we are compelled to go into Texas, I want to go in booted & spurred & without gloves - & show rebels but little mercy - The Citizens & returned Rebel soldiers in Southern Ala appear to be well satisfied with the state of afairs - They generally give up -"Immortal Nigger" without a whimper - & will succomb to the Constituted Autherity & make good Citizens - Our Yanky Soldiers take well with the Southern ladies - Their own men are so many of them killed that there are many more women than men - & I am of the opinion that Southern women, do not set the same estimate- on their husbands that women of the north do or perhaps do not apreciate them in the same light that you of the north do, & consequently forget them sooner - They must have a man - of some description - & the soldiery are not the men to stand on "propriety".  But I do not propose to write an essay on Southern female character, more than that they are generally handsome- & in the north would be considered - "fast". 
I have no answers yet to any of my letters written after the siege at Spanish Fort commenced - I your last you speak of having received mine of March 24th three days before the first days battle - since that time I have written with this eight letters - In my last I wrote you I believe that we had been paid 10 months & that I would send $500.  I have not sent it yet - I had hoped to go over to N. O. & posibly take it home - I ought to be definite about it but hardly know what to do - I may go up to the Citty to morrow & send it by express - I will have about $175 left
