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with much more interest and could certainly understand them better. I have seen so much of Southern life. Well we have had our afternoon Sermon which I mentioned in the forepart of my letter. The text was in the 13 Chapter of Zach - 6th verse. Among the strangers present were Me Stevens who still follows the battery, several ladies Bowling Green and Genl [illegible] if I may call him a stranger. The minister said it was the first company of soldiers who ever listened to a sermon in Bowling Green. Me Stevens the orderly Sergt brother is going to leave Chicago for the battery soon and tell mother I shall expect my pants, and other articles which I sent for. If she has time I wished she would please make me 2 red flannel shirts, with tail and little longer than army regulations allow, and put in my old vest.