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one of our wounded ones has again joined the battery, his wound is entirely well.

                  In your last letter you gave me some directions for cooking pies, dried apples [illegible]. 
                  Permit me to inform you that you are a long ways behind the age in your advice. 
                  If you desire in my next letter I will give you a [receit?] for making plum-pudding out of dried apples, which considering circumstances may soon be useful to you.
       Since pay-day we poor soldiers in the field (as they term us at home) have lived rather high. 
        My supper tho other evening consisted of hot biscuit, butter, cheese, fresh oysters blackberries dried apples, tea, etc [illegible].  In my humble opinion this was about as good a supper as you usually get up even