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Conscript Camp

Fair Haven

Sunday Aug 28 Conn

Sister Eliza

Here I am gay
and happy as a lark with not a
thing to mar my happiness. I
arrived here safe and sound after
after a dusty ride of two ((20)[?] miles
and was placed in the third
story of a dusty lousy old building
there being no less than 500 on the
same floor however I enjoyed
myself tip top. Our grub is not
the best nor the boorest, it jest goes
down and that all. Pickpockets
are thicker than lise on a Sold-
ier's Shi[r]t Collar and not a night
passes but some body losse's some
thing but as yet I am safe. These

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