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or two.  He has two good looking daughters

and a smart woman but they are the

[...ingest?] of [?] and do not deny it

[A?] [p...?] may [?] [?] the men to [Guard?]

a rich mans house and every poor man

in the country leave his last pig and chicken

The men made up on their minds Monday

to have the fat of the land and thus far

they have carried it out.  Turkeys, Chickin

and Sheep & pigs [f...?] [kind?].  Yesterday

I helped to kill a nice fat pig belonging

to the man I am now Guarding and he

must rut the rest [closed?] [up?] or we will

[f...?] his [eatbles?].  The first four days we

were out here we [found?] [?] [kind?] we

brought only two days rations with us and

small cases at that and Sunday when

we marched all we had after breakfast

until Monday morning was two hard tacks

and then we [d...?] our own [rations?]

of the [people?] here.  To day we [?] [two?]

days [?] and we may stay here

some time yet A great many reports are

stiring here some say we are making a

faint to keep Lee from moving and

others say Lee has moved and is between

Baltimore & Washington and that we

are going in his rear toward Richmond

but I have found the only way to tell

when such reports are true are when

they [?] [papers?] We came out here with

only our Rubber blankets leaving our

knap sacks in camp expecting to go

in again in two days.  We have no change