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the landscape was verry much different
nothing but ptch pine trees and tents to
be seen Dec 16 I have been strutting
around camp with a new carbine hung
to my back I was put on guard to
day but taking advantage of a good
chanc I got clear of the duty
Dec 16th 1861
Dear Brother
I received your and
Eunices and Sovia letters sunday eve
it is not nessasary to tell you how
glad I was to receive some good news
from home I wish I had known that
Mr. Williams came to washington I should
likd to have seen him Will you tell me
what regiment Edwin blongs to and
name of captain I have seen Joseph
Stafford and Fletcher Baxter they
are down to fourt Washington tell Eunice
that I paid Harriet Heart a visit
the other evening her husband is sick
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please write soon
I will send a song home
that we have to sing in camp