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The day that I sent the Box home I got the one John sent me, and you can hardly imagine how hopping happy I was to get it.  I went over to Chattanooga with Edgar, (our Quarter Master) we have to have them along here or get an order from them so Edgar thought he would go to and get all of the boxes for our Reg't. at once , he got into the express Office first while I was expressing the box home and looked the boxes all over, he said my box was not there, but I was bound to look, being that I had come so far. I went in and about the first one my eyes rested upon it read M. W.  Darling and I hit it a kick, says  I that my box, so I hustled it onto the Cars and had it carried down to Lookout Station and carried it directly to Camp and you can bet it was not long before I began to taste of some Cookies from the land of Sugar and milk where every thing is plenty (except hard tack and Sow belley as the Soldiers call the pork) there was two quarts Cans of Butter a two quart can of very nice pickles, two quarts of dried cherries and berries four or five pounds of nice ham three or four pounds of dried beef some dried apples and a lot of cookies, and he put in some salt, we have thousands of that, but I did not tell him any thing to send so he thought some salt might come very handy, every thing came very nice and kept good though it was about a month coming, since then I have

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The day that I sent the Box home I got the one John sent me, and you can hardly imagine how hopping happy I was to get it. I went over to Chattanooga with Edgar, (our Quarter Master) we have to have them along here or get an order from them so Edgar thought he would go to and get all of the boxes for our Reg't. at once , he got into the express Office first while I was expressing the box home and looked the boxes all over, he said my box was not there, but I was bound to look, being that I had come so far. I went in and about the first one my eyes rested upon it read M. W. Darling and I hit it a kick, says I that my box, so I hustled it onto the Cars and had it carried down to Lookout Station and carried it directly to Camp and you can bet it was not long before I began to taste of some Cookies from the land of Sugar and milk where every thing is plenty (except hard tack and Sow belley as the Soldiers call the pork) there was two quarts Cans of Butter a two quart can of very nice pickles, two quarts of dried cherries and berries four or five pounds of nice ham three or four pounds of dried beef some dried apples and a lot of cookies, and he put in some salt, we have thousands of that, but I did not tell him any thing to send so he thought some salt might come very handy, every thing came very nice and kept good though it was about a month coming, since then I have