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going to have 3 forts built here, I tell you we have plenty of Duty to do - it is every other Day & some times every Day, but I guess the hardest of it is done. The Boys in the [illegible] is all well but a few, D. Litchfield is a little under the weather but he says he is better to night, there is 24 mean for Duty in [illegible] F now our [best?] has about 260 or 275 men for Duty. So you [illegible] [illegible] considerable since we left Quincy it was [illegible] then there is talk of our getting Paid in a few Days I don't know whether it is so or not yet but I hope it is for I am about out I guess I will have to Stop writing for to night for it is bed time + Roll Call , excuse bad writing + mistakes + write soon + send me the news Direct your letter to Nashville Tennessee [illegible] F 84th Reg Ills Vols - write soon

Wm F Foster