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[Inverted text begin] As I bid you good bye I wil drink your health as I have a canteen of native Tennessee muscadine wine, so here goes old Bill [inverted text end] on the march we would go to some of the rich old rebels and want to buy such articles as we wanted and offer them green Backs for pay they would spurn the offer and swear we shouldent have a cents worth of any thing unless we paid the gold & silver for it we would quietly inform them that we would take what we wanted and give them a receipt from uncle Sam for what we thought it was worth and at the end of the war if the could prove this Loyality they would get their pay, & then we went in to loading such things as is good for the soldier to eat there being near ten thousand men and a proportionate number of horses and mules the vicinty