September 24:
Dear Mamma,
I think it peculiar I haven't got a single letter from home since I started.
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By the way, while I think of it, will you ask the governor to buy me an eight dollar [$216, 2015] army trunk...Also a plain black leather sword belt. The varnished one I bought for $4.50 [$121.50] is entirely used up, besides not being regulation. [Why did you buy it, Henry, if it was not up to regulation? Huh?]
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The [enemy] pickets are very friendly...hurrying us off at all sorts of hours to all sorts of places. However it is good fun and varies the monotony.
Dear Mamma,
I think it peculiar I haven't got a single letter from home since I started.
...
By the way, while I think of it, will you ask the governor to buy me an eight dollar [$216, 2015] army trunk...Also a plain black leather sword belt. The varnished one I bought for $4.50 [$121.50] is entirely used up, besides not being regulation. [Why did you buy it, Henry, if it was not up to regulation? Huh?]
...
The [enemy] pickets are very friendly...hurrying us off at all sorts of hours to all sorts of places. However it is good fun and varies the monotony.
