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On Sunday night there were nearly thirty deserted from the regiment, three from our company, Norman, Williamson, & Sinclair. On Monday night nearly as many more, & four from [illegible] Wyant, [Meby?], Foreman, Langston. There is a great deal of dissatisfaction in the Army, now that they see hard times, as long as there was nothing to do the grumbelers could bear it, but now it is Niggar and Old Abe all the time, they are not going to fight to free Niggars, and they are not going to do this, and do that, the truth of it is they did not start from the right motive [vertical writing transcribed with following page]