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bad if a farmer comes into camp with fruit and vegetables one half of the time the boys will collect around him by the hundreds and steal every thing he has. I went out side of the lines to a farm hous to get some milk, the lady of the house told me that although they had plenty cows it way very seldom that they could get any for themselves, there is a large apple orchard in the place but not an apple can get ripe and forty acres of corn all of which has been stolen for wasting ears. By that you can see that honest people have to go without delicacies. In regard to lieutenant [illegible] he does surely feel his oats, he is very overbearing he will get