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it is shingled with cloth and covered
with tar the infantry occupy a large
brick barrack three stories high about
forty ft wide and two hundred ft long
the lower rooms they use for mess rooms
Hello there bang goes the cannon there
goes annother & another and I must go to
the window and see what is up. Well
here I am again the Artillerry company
is fireing their fare well shots they leave
for Washington to day they fiered 12
shots in about two minutes the smoke
of their cannon blew rite into our barr
acks which maks it smell rather healthy
as I looked out on the parade ground
I saw artillery men forming in their
ranks some were handling the cannon
some the carriages some were marching
in plattoons some by fours ang double
and single fill and many other ways
that I will not mention now