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1864-03-13-Page 03

If Deloss was here now all of our Bunk would be together once more I hope to hear that he was one of the number that arrived at City Point from Richmond.
I dont know as you have heard that Edgar Shannon is promoted to 1st. Lieut, he is to be our Quarter Master, he will get now $136, dollars a month now if he does not keep only one horse I am glad to see Edgar come up and the best thing is that he is put in over Dell Chaffee, who has been working his best and all of his friends at home also, to get him promoted,  it appears that there is some think there was no one come from Leon only Dell Chaffee and that he is the only one of importance from there, if he had never had any better chance than common Leon boys he would been a Doehead
(Vertically from bottom right:-)
in fact he does not lack much of it now.

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If Deloss was here now all of our Bunk would be together once more I hope to hear that he was one of the number that arrived at City Point from Richmond. I dont know as you have heard that Edgar Shannon is promoted to 1st. Lieut, he is to be our Quarter Master, he will get now $136, dollars a month now if he does not keep only one horse I am glad to see Edgar come up and the best thing is that he is put in over Dell Chaffee, who has been working his best and all of his friends at home also, to get him promoted, it appears that there is some think there was no one come from Leon only Dell Chaffee and that he is the only one of importance from there, if he had never had any better chance than common Leon boys he would been a Doehead (Vertically from bottom right:-) in fact he does not lack much of it now.