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Saturday May 14th I took a walk in the morning with Jim {[Samson?]] and again in the evening with Charley Berdan, after that I had a long gas with Charley Graves. I have as usual been studying Punctuation and Prosody. The papers bring good news from Virginia and Georgia. Reader are you tired of hearing me say I have taken a walk and Studied Grammar. If you are you will have to be so. But if you are acquainted with my two companions Samson? and Berdan and then could take one walk with them in this delightful locality you would no longer mind that I deem each single walk worth recording. I love a man of heroic soul. Berdan is a quiet uncomplaining hero who stands calm and composed in the most terrible shocks of battle a tall heavy man of powerful muscle