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you need not be afraid to fill so large a sheet, thinking that it will be a bore for me to read them. I will admit that when you write in the night you put on so much ink, that it takes me some time to decipher your hyeroglyphics, it looks as though the Chickens has got among your ink and paper, nevertheless they are all read through. I am much obliged to you for correcting me in spelling and will endevor to improve by it. I will explain to you the sircumstances in which Lt. Howard was caught asleep, in standing guard on picket a man only stands two hours out of six, on picket the head quarters of a squad, is one hundred yards to the rear of the out post, or