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the reason we were not discharged last week was because the paymaster was not here to pay us. he told us we would all be paid off the first of this week and be discharged but I will now tell you the latest news Capt. Kitchell told us this morning that [word missing] 3 year mess would be [word missing] in next Tuesday and give them [word missing?] pass for ten days and kept the 3 month men till their time is up John since I commenced this letter a squad of us boys got a pass from the Colonel and took a ride on a steam Boat up to Mound City about 6 miles from here we stayed about 3 hours Capt. Mumm and his Co. is up there the Capt treated us very well he gave us all we wanted to eat John when I sat down here I intended to write you a long letter but the fact of it is I don't feel like writing I have got a bad headache and don't