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You asked what our feelings were in regard to that vilinouis Conductor We all think that he is a traitor of the deepest dye, and yet what was his sentence by the Judge of the Provost Court, one year at Parish Prison, while a soldier for trivial crimes, perhaps for cursing an Officer, is sent to Ship Island from one to five years with ball and chain. I suppose their will be a day of reckoning comeing sometime when a Soldier will have an equal footing with others, but so long as he is a Soldier, he has got to be ground down, and the best way is to take it without a murmer if it does go against the grain. We had a very sudden death in our Company a few days ago Boreman was taken sick one