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us five months pay. They are gitting very strick in our
Brigade now we have to drill 3 times a day and
answer 5 roll calls a day. I suppose the Brigadear
wants to make regulus out of us. Well all I have got
to say we will halfter a bay orders.
Give my love to Ma & Pa, Ann Louisa & her husband,
Henry and Clarra not forgetting to reseive a due share
your self.  I am glad that Thomas writes to you
so often. I am glad to hear that he is well and in
a little while he will be home once more if nothing
happens to him. It is strange that John does not
write, but you must bear in mind that he is on
the move and a man has not the chance to do so
when so situated. I hope and pray nothing has happened
to him for in that case God ownly knowes what
is to become of his wife and little ones ho is depending
on him for serport. As for me if God should so order
it that I should be caried away I am like a blited tree in a
desert there is nothing that lives under my shelter
and I thank God for it.  So let come what will I
am ready to meat it and if I fall I fall with the
proud counsince of having done my deauty to my
country & my God. I do not dispear of the Union
nor will I as long as thear is a plank of the old
consitiution left to stand on. All we want for
those to do that told us to go to the war is to take
care of the home treaters (and I consider all treaters
that is trying to imbarress the government by speaches
againtes the government) and we will do the best we
can with the Rebels that is pited againtes us in the
field. Edmund, as I feal my heart & soul is in this
cause for I believe it is the deauty of every man
to give what little he is able in support of the best
government that was ever givn to man. It is all very
well for men to cry peace when thear is no peace. These men
if the truth wer told is in thear hearts rebels to this government
and they have done more to imbaress the government
than the rebels that is in armes in my estermation.
I was up to the 10th Regiment the other day. This is the
regiment Frank Allen belongs to. They seam in high
glee because they are agoing home the latter part of
this month. Thear is no news of importence out hear
at present. As the weather is bad one day nice the
next eather raining or snowing the Officers has got
to carry thear tents on thear backs the same as the