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Paris Ky. Oct. 27, 1862, Dear Sister Carrie, This place compares very favorably with Paris, Ills. for prety girls and Union demonstrations it is a handsomly laid our city with a buisness like air compared to any thing I have seen before in Ky., the principle street which we came through is about one mile in length, but Oh! the niggars there are three to one white person where there is no demonstrations by the whites you would see the darkey's waving their handkerchiefs from some secluded corner or garrot window [begin vertical writing] I was a considerably disapointed at not receiving a letter from home to day as there was a large mail for the regiment. How do you and May Lory get along. What is Miles doing. I send you a sprig of mistletoe it grows from the limbs of forest trees in clusters sometimes as large as a bushel basket it is an evergreen and blossomes in mid winter it draws its nourishment from the sap which eventualy kills the tree [vertical writing end]