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Whiteside Station Tenn Dec 26th 1863 Kind Sir: yours of the 13th Come to hand yesterday which found me well as usual, (with the exception of a bad Cold) and when this reaches you I hope it will find you well and enjoying yourself. taking into Consideration the Cold weather you had up there. will you wanted to know if we had any cold weather down here, we had no cold weather like you have up there but it Seems as hard on us as it did at home. the ground has been froze about an inch deep & ice about 3/4 on an inch thick. and Some tolerable big Frosts. we have got us a house built and we are very comfortable only when we are on Picket and that is about Every 3rd Day, we are not allowed fire on the out Posts if it was ever so Cold