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comedy. Rosedale or the Rifle Man. It wound up, about like one of the Ledger Stories with the girls loner shooting his rival. Our Regiment was paid off yesterday two months pay, with our clothing bill reckoned in, up to the first of November. I received thirty dollars, and five cents while some of the boys were in debt on their two months wages. It is useless for me to think of sending any money home, as long as I am in New Orleans for there is so many ways for money to go. Why: I have spent nearly half already paying debts, buying clothing etc. etc. I have been racking my brain to think of something that I coud get, and send to Caty and Marshall, for a Christmas present, but have come to the conclusion that the best way