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Camp Butler [Sundy?] [afternoon?] Dear Carrie Yesterday I got a pass and went to Springfield I got my teeth fixed Sevin teeth plugged for six dollars had made an appointment with an artist to take my picture at 4 Oclock, was going into the [rooms?] at the [illegible] time when Capt. J stoped me and said that we had marching orders he was appointed provost marshall of the city with orders to send all the 97 men to camp and appointed [begin struck through writing] [deputised?] [struck through writing end] me as an assistant. I had to go into [begin vertical text] Monday Morn, it has been a wet night with a prospect of more rain. I can see one more prospect of [illegible] then there was yesterday. Do you ever see the [other?] [illegible] one of the [illegible] is a regular [illegible], a resolution that was [illegible] by the boys in last weeks [illegible] to the effect that those who enlisted and did not come should be considered as cowards and receive a [illegible] shirt, to be paid with the [illegible] Love to all from your brother Carlie [vertical text end]