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               Albany Nov 18th 1861

[?] Dear Brother

                  I take my pen in
hand to write you a few lines and
let you know how things go in camp
this morning. We were awakened by
the report of a large brass cannon that
shook the buildings to their foundations
we then got up and spread our blankets
neatly over our ticks and then went to
wash perhaps you would like to
know the convienience we have for washing
there is a sheet, about sixty feet long with
a pipe runing through it with fasets
one in two or three feet and a vat
under them to wash in in one end there
is [aroon?] and a large vat to bathe in
I went in bathing sundy morning
the barracks that we occupy is a building
thirty five rods long it is a balloon frame

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I wrote home one week ago and have not
received an answer yet, tell then to
hurry up their cakes