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Camp Peoria Ills. Oct. 2nd 1862 Dear Brother To day is a great day [in?] camp- we are going to be Mustered in to day I reckon- All is in a Hubbub men are to be taken out of the 9 companies & another company made so we can be mustered in. Eight men were taken out of our Company I have been as uneasy as could be ever since last night for fear I might be in the detail. I want to stay in this company & I intended to go in this company or none. If I had been detailed I don't know what I should have done. But thank good Fortune it missed me. I think the Capt. took out those that had been rather slack of duty & were in the habit of running off