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from a pedlar the other morning and at night 5 of them were dead, another of them is not expected to live. This I took for a [warning?] [illegible] to We have about 25 or 30 mules for our company for drawing our baggage & wagons and such [sport?] as those mules make in the camp you can't immagine __________ 5 or 6 of the boys were selected from our company to drive them and I had the good luck not to be among the number. I wrote to mother and father last Tuesday and I expect they have received my letter before this. Our orderly [illegible] wife Mrs Stevens is about sick of camp life, she follows the battery and boards at some house in the neighborhood of the Camp. also mentioned our Quarmaster Sngt Case, and the [approval?] of Calvin Durannd his sucessor. He makes a splendid quartermaster [Srgt?]

   I could write all night of the numerous incidents which are momentarily occurring in our camp but my duty will not permit me to [delay?] longer.   Tell Kate that she may expect a letter from me in a few days, and I am going to write a few lines to Isaac as soon as I have an opportunity.  I am [duly?] expecting and answer to my letter to mother and father.   If you knew how much I prized a letter from home, when there are 4 or 5 of you to write and I am alone to answer them I think you would write as often ,  [Remember?] me to Uncle James, Gale, Mr. Patten's

folks and all inquiring friends. Write soon and still address Board of Trade Battery Care of Capt. Slates, Louisville, Ky.

Your affectionate brother John C. Flemming

PS I forgot to state that I received a letter from father at the same time I received yours in answer to my first letter J.C.F.