We have just come off of dress parade, and I have nothing els to do till
supper. I will spend the time in writing you a
short letter. I promised to write you a few lines at Doublin, but we met Calvin near Newbern and Isupposed he would
give you the news from there better than I could.
We had a very pleasant ride [to] the camp. We got transportation on a passenger train, and I could have enjoyed my
self very well. If I had been going allmost any where els, but when I
got here I was agreably disappinted in the country. I expected to find it like
the country down on Black Water, but the land here is more like the land in
western Virginia.
It is rhumored in camp this evening that we will have to go back to Black Water.
Every body wants your knife; I was offered ten dollars for it to day if I would wait till draw day. I drew my rations of confederates this morning. I got the twelve dollars that Elkins owed me for the wach. John Sutphin, Ballard Quesinbury, Billy Gray, and Billy Smith has not come to camp yet. There is plenty of Yankees here and there is some of them that is flying fowls; they sail up over our camps to vew us. As I have nothing of interest, I will close by subscribing my self,
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