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birth day. You speak of your haveing a fit of dispondancy, I do not much wonder at it, for you have had so much on your mind since Carries protracted illness, you must keep in good spirits for there is a better time a comeing some time. You seem to be in doubt as to what Corps I belong to. It is the 2nd Brigade (Landrum's) 10th Division (A. J. Smith's), 13 Army Corps. (McClernands) of Grants Misspe. Valey Army. While guarding at Head Quarters on of our boys found an order that had blown away, to the effect, the the Army here was to be Mustered to morrow, to find out how many men were wanted in each Reg. to fill them to their maximum number, this refers to Conscripts. It is true about Capt. Trible being dishonorably discharged from the Service the charge against him was false muster. On Tuesday evening in honor of the aniversary of the battle of Shilo our Reg. decorated the camp with the green cand, and had it illuminated, the lights were in the tops of the cane, from twenty to thirty feet high. I am told it was a fine sight but did not see it.