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The needle book will be a good investment if I only get it as I have some sewing to do: the Sanitary Commission has furnished me with needles & thread though. In consequence of my fever & exposure my head is as bald as Grandfathers used to be, but I can see that the new hair is in prospect, so I am not quite an old man, yet. There are some twenty-one or twenty-two Vt soldiers here now, all of whom have made application for furloughs, but those who were here when I came applied a month before so I think my chance is in the distance, yet a while, at least.
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I got a letter from Charlie Newton last night telling me of his [underline]reEnlistment, furlough & marriage[/underline]. In regard to the first, he is muddled; respecting the second, he was again clear, but of the third, I can only say he is a fool and she, a ninny.
No female will ever marry me after giving me [underline]three final dismissals[/underline], and she has done this to him to my personal knowledge. [underline]Once[/underline]before the war and [underline]twice[/underline] since he came out. I will close now.
"Thy" dutiful son
W. B. Stevens, [P. P?]
