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Our Chaplain has lately come from
Washington, where he saw Henry and
says he is doing nicely with his one leg.
("fall in for Roll Call," is the order, so excuse
me a moment.) though rather thin in flesh.
He is really a cripple, for life, but the
Chaplain says he is cheerful as ever.
The Officers of the Regiment are going to
give him a commission, if they can do
so & they think they [underline]can[/underline]. This will give
him the pay of Second Lieutenant, for
at least two months & longer, unless he
he chooses to resign, then, & raises his
Pension seven dollars a month, in case
the cripples of the war of sixty-one-two
-three, are allowed Pensions, at all,
& most likely they will be. It is just
that he should have it, as if he had
been less unlucky & able to remain in
the Regiment he would have had it
soon, if not ere now. I am writing with
a pen, which I bought of Derbon, the first of
our Company, to fall, on the thirteenth, the
day before we started for the river. If we re-
main here till we are payed again,
I shall try to get a pass to Washington, but
if I am well, do not think I shall try
for a Furlough, this Winter.

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We have only one Commissioned Offi-
cer with us now, as our Second Lt.
has got an appointment, as Major, in
the Fifty-eighth [N.Y.?] Regiment & has
left us to join the same. Our First
Lt. is detached, to serve on the Staff
of General Brooks. Four Companies of
our Regiment are on fatigue duty at Gen-
eral Franklin's Head Quarters, so we
have only six, here. Yesterday we had
a Brigade Inspection & Review, before Col-
onel Whiting. I am glad Jay J. Lewis got
along so well, with his address should
have liked to hear it. In regard to
James' going to Kansas, I can only say,
that if I were at home, and had
such an offer, I should take up with
it, for all going into the Army. I am
no great lover of the service though
it is not as irksome to me as it is
to most of the soldiers. I do not think
Timothy ought to blame me for not
writing him, as I have done so twice,
since I got any thing from him. Per-
haps I do not direct aright. Please
tell me correctly & I will try him, a-
gain. Please write him, too, of the a-
bove circumstances of the case as