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of troop left here yesterday and I see quite

a number of Steamers anchored in

the river and taking in coal for a long

trip some where  ther is some gun boats

here now probably you will hear from them

before long.  well this is rather of a hard

place to write.  I guess that I will shift

my quarters and see if I cannot do better

I am sorry that you are not suited with

the picture I sent you.  you would not

ask a man to open his eyes [hun?] he had

not had them shut for forty right hours

and as to holding my head so high

[a solder?] is obliged to or he will have

what I call a dog collar to wear

around his neck.  you say that I looked

ugly well that is natural or at least some

of the regulars think so.  it is a strange

fact that the regulars and the volunteers

cannot agree the have knocked down and

robed some of our men but once they barked

up the wrong tree for they got severely

whipped and taken to the provost marchal