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had a good time. The order when we haulted was that we would remain there 4 or 6 days but the next day orders were that we should be ready to move the next morning at six. So it goes we dont know 24 hours beforehand what we wil do. We arrived here yesterday and you may be assured not sorry to get to stop a while. There is about 35.000 Troops laying here now. I have no Id'ea how long we will stay. I hope though that we wil remain some time. We cannot expect to find better quarters than we have here. Springfield shurely derives its name from the numerous springs around. There is one that supplies the whole army and dont lowers it a bit Wel if you can read this and make sense out of it you will do better than I expect. I am too tired and sleepy to write and have to write laying down on the ground or on my knee. since we left st Louis we have ben living on jayhawked peactes and apples, and some of the boys went so far as to jayhawk sheep, and hogs, saying nothing about the suffering of the chickens, Turkey's, and gees. One thing to me is strange that men of honor and good morals at home. When they get together in the service, loose all regard for themselves. I tel you this is a hard place for a person to live upright I have heard more Oaths and seen more wickedness since we have ben here than in my life before. I beleive for my part I well try and live as becomes a man [vertical writing start] under any and every sircumstances [vertical writing end]