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a french furlough for a spree, it keeps two men busy from three O clock in the morning untill dark. Some of our men had just returned from furloughs and brought with them many delicious dried fruit butter eggs etc. I cooked them and of course received a share which compensated me for my trouble. Must give you a discription of an illumination in camp by Col. Heakers regiment, it was aniversary the fifty first birth day of the Col. they planted a sapling with all the branches on, in front of every tent with several candles burning in every tree, in front of the Col. tent was an arbour covered with reaths of flowers, and cantered lights, also a wreath of red white and blue lights hanging in the centre with his name