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Camp near Patricks Station, VA You see I did not write Sunday, all the excuse I have for not doing
so is that I had not got back to the regt [sic]. We did not get to Washington
until Friday morning. We staid there until Sunday expecting the ice would
get out of the Potomac so the boats could move but it did not and Sunday
we went to Annapolis, where we took the boat for City Point. We arrived
Monday night. We got to our camp about 11 at night. Saw Clayton and Tom
Ryan in Washington. Clayton expects to be promoted soon to a first class
clerk [?]. I found quite a number of new officers in the regt [sic]. Walter
is Second Lieutenant of Battery "C." Does Jennie know it? I
found your letter of June 15th all right. Walter took care of it for me,
he is the best fellow "in town" but you need not fall in love
with him and give everybody else the sack. You see I don't believe that
story you told me. Yet it maybe so though. I am sure I hope it is that
is if they like it. If I had the least idea that you would punish me in
the way you threaten [?] in case I write to Julia and not to you. I should
be tempted to tag [?] it because after you had got tired out flaxing me
around with the Poker and had broken the broomstick over my head. We could
sit down and have a good visit. Oh yes, of course I knew you got "spunky"
sometimes but there is no great danger in my neglecting to write to you.
I know of but one person that could hinder me and that is your own dear
self-There is one thing I intended to have done before I left Shoreham
that I could not as the fellow was gone that is to have a talk with that
Beau of yours. Don't know as it would have done any good if I had he better
look out when the soldiers get home because even if I can do nothing some
of these can perhaps. So he must improve his tone for the next few months
before the one years men [?] get back there. The weather is ___ changeable
here, Monday night it was very cold. Yesterday it was quite pleasant and
today it has remained considerable. When I was in Washington I saw Seth
Kinsman [?] the California Hunter and got his picture and that of the
chair he presented to the President. The man looks exactly like the picture
(or the picture like the man) the chair I did not see. Please accept these
from your "Big Brother." Ambrose Ladam is with the Co. now he
was tried at Alexandria. His sentence is to forfeit all pay that is due
him and ten dollars per month for fifteen months. I shall do the best
I can to get his sentence omitted. His father is the one that should be
punished. Will I shall have to stop if I get this in the mail today. Will
write you again soon. Wish I was in Shoreham now. What did you dream.
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