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of our cavalry have reenlisted for 3yrs and gone home to recruit. [Arming?] them the 7th Penn Cav. 4 Ohio Cav and 5th Iowa Cav. The latter is Sam Caskey's reg't. He however did not reenlist. I saw Sam a day [illegible] ago, he has about 8 mo. more to serve.

    Since leaving Huntsville Sarah, I have had no letters from home and of course do not know how you spent Christmas and New Years [ illeg] on Christmas I was on the march and New Years night was mighty cold, in fact I enjoyed it less than the one a year ago.  I had a letter from Johnny Leet yesterday he is going to Chicago about the middle of this month on