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is pretty sure of cleaning them out something is going to turn up for they aint bringing so many troops here for nothing and if they send any of them down south our regiment is as apt to go as any. Colonel Paine says he is going on with us just the same as if we were agoing for 3 years and when our time is up we can do as we please either go home or stay John we have got the best Colonel on the ground. he dont make us drill if it rains if we are drilling and it commences to rain he will let us break rank and go to our quarters. last friday we started to go to a funral we hadend more than started when it commenced sprinkling he told us to break ranks they buried the man without us going there is a boat coming down the river Boom goes a cannon to make her round too she is going to land the sun shines too hot for me