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usual Sagacity & preponderosity of

caution I selected the 91st in case

I should fail.

           My regt is in new Orleans

I look well in uniform I am altering

my privates coat into officer putting

Staff buttons on it & tearing of the

cord and putting a stripe on my pants

  I have two contrabands to wait

on me they clean my boots etc

I have a good bed nice office & splendid

Store I do nothing but fill Ward Prescrip

tions & Examine the sick I have [touched?]

more small pox & measles to day than

you can shake a stick at.

             I make perquisites in money

various ways,

              I have charge of all

the Porter Ale Wine & Whiskey medicines

& Keep the Key in my pocket what

a jolly temptation is it not?

              Celia prove yourself a

soldiers wife and love him your

brother died a soldier and I

see them dying in the wards Every

day