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but now anything to buf our style. Your letter of the 1st has been recd. Also one from Charlie, and Carrie, of the 19th. Tell Carrie that I am not Ordly Sergt. but only Act so to the detatchment of the Co. at this place. Do not know wheather I shall be able to get you any more Aligator scales, and shells at present I can not get to lake Bourn without a pass from the Provost Marshal General As to getting that am rather doubtfull. Hazard has returned he brought but few recruits with him, most of them have been detached for six months at Camp Butler. He looks fat and hearty, and somewhat stuck up by his commission. I understand that Capt Lewis