papers with them

you stated in your

letter that the time

would soon come

that the soldiers

would return home

in safty and I hope

so to well mary i

am getting tired of

livin the life of

a dog and to lay

in the rain and mud

well mary the 30 was

in the fight and got

cut oup prety bade

thare an more than

150 men in the

regiment now that

is fit for duty and

the duty is hard whe

are fortfying the town