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And then it was hard to leave home again
I tried to cheer our folks as well as I was able
but I felt to much, to be altogether calm
one always conjures up a picture of what
may be in future and often the darkest
side is viewed I myself though often
cast down, am inclined to be hopeful for
the future, but enough of this you will
wish to know what I am doing, going to do
&c [etc.] and that is a great deal more than
I shall be able to tell you Our reg at present is
doing but little beyond picket duty with an
occasionaly [occasionally] a dash out into the enemys [enemy's] countrey [country]
I understand three hundred goes out today with
three dayes [days] rations our Co is on picket and will
not go I am laid up with a severe cold and
am not on duty I am so dizzy with headache
that I am likely to make a very poor letter of this

We have no snow here yet and it has been verry [very]
warm untill [until] a day or twoo [two] since when it
turned cold as one would wish to see it
if he were an inhabitant of Greenland

The Rebs have troubled us but little of late
and the old sing song – "all is quiet on the
Potomac" is literaly [literally] true We made it verry [very] lively
for Johney [Johnny] Reb last fall in this part and we nearly
cleaned them out of all their available men