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the guidons which are on the flank guns of the battery. Since we have come to Nashville, we cannot brag of having such good living as formerly having to subsist entirely on government rations and rather [scantly?] at that. Provisions are very high in N-. A very common article of butter is worth $1.00 per pound. Eggs go (?) per day and other articles proportionally high. Nearly every day I come across more and more of my former acquaintances in Chicago engaged in the same just cause as myself. We are now encamped within 2 miles of the 88th Ill. (2nd 2d of Trade) the regiment John and Frank Miller are in, and also the same distance from the 89th