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We are expecting our pay everyday. I suppose we will receive pay for 4 months $52.00, and the first safe opportunity which offers. I will send most of it home to you. Mrs. Hall [represents?] to me that you were very anxious about me having in a letter from The [illegible] [boys?], that I was very [sick?]. The truth of the matter is I was rather under the weather 4 days and all that aided me was The diarhuea, caused by a sudden change from Army pork to fresh meat about 1/2 cooked after the battle, you must remember mother that them are some persons, upon whom God has bestowed brains so sparingly, that it is utterly impossible for them write a short letter home about their own affairs, and consequently have to interfere in the business of others. Such are the [illegible] boys. In the future, you can hear of me from Johnny Hall and myself and never mind their vain epistles home, Mrs. Hall has just come into camp