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Bowling Green Nov 13, 1862 8 o'clock in the evening

My Dear Father and Mother

   As a good opportunity is presented for writing  I have determined to improve the opportunity.  6 or 7 of our men are going to Chicago in the morning having been discharged from the Service on count of various disabilities.  
    Among them is[Danny?] who you know joined us at Louisville and also 2 of our gun Squad.  Fred Gregory, by whom I will send this and Sam T. Phillips. My writing has been taken advantage of and I may say I have written about all of the long discharge of those 7. 
   Fred Gregory who has promised for me to deliver this to mother is one of the very best boys in