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the (No 2) bugle to sound the assembly call and made every man march a distance of 2 miles to the river to wash. Now when it come that that a Capt insults as intelligent a lot of men as he has got by sending them to the river to wash as much as to say that we didn't know enough to keep ours selves clean it is about time to stop. But we did march to the river, and sat all afternoon on the banks, a mutinous crowd we were, threatening to throw the first man in who dared to wash himself, but nobody felt so low as to gratify the Capt by washing. So we returned in the evening as we left at noon.

    Since then the Command has been becoming more and more mutinous having been cut down on the their rations until last Tuesday, when the Sergeants went to the Capt, and in the name of the men demanded our full rations, but I guess that everything is again quite but Capt Stokes can never reach the former [point] of estimation in which he was held by every member of the Company.  I have just taken another look at the photograph of mother which you sent me and, and I should judge from it that she is fretting herself about me for She looks about 10 yrs older in it since I left home.   If She only knew how contented and comfortable I am I know She would feel much happier.  But as I have got this photograph now I am going to keep it and bring it back home with me when the war is ended and peace is declared but not before if I can help it.   I think I should receive a few more of these mementoes if my memory serves me rightly, in return for some