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In reading your letter, how I longed for some of the cool weather you spoke of Here we have no shade but the tent, and it is almost suffacatiing to live in, in the day time the nights are quite cool. As I sit writing the Sun almost burns my back. Am obliged to write in the middle of the day, on account of drill and dress parade. I have not received any of the Pictorials yet which you sent presume they will arrive after a while, as papers do not go as direct as letters I am in hopes that I shall have an opportunity of getting home on a furlough sometime dureing the hot months. Remember me to friends and neighbors. And love to all the Dear ones at home I am ever you loveing Brother C. W. Colby