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improvement in regard to their cumfort as they can make the tents very warm and cumfortable in quite cold weather  Speaking of the weather. yesterday morning it got quite cold and in the evening it Snowed about 2 inches deep which is our first Snow Storm since leaveing Louisville but as I said before we can keep quite cumfortable in our tents.  I am much pleased at receiving Marks letter as I have been anctious to hear from him for some time and I wrote to your Father a day or two since and inquired where to send to so he would get it.  I will write to him soon.  I am thinking he is mistaken about them being sent to Kentucky.  You Spoke about sending me some butter.  I wish you would pack 10 or 15 lbs in a crock and then put it in a box and Send it by Express to New Haven as we cant get any here at all scarcely and when we are lucky enough to get a little it is poor stuff and costs us about 40 cents per lb  Since writing the above I talked with Crist, Burgess, and Serring and they all want some butter.  You send word to Mrs Serring by Sam Serring and see Mr Burgess and Ez Crist and tell them and have it all sent in one Box. and send it as soon as you can conveniently as that is about all we need in the eating line but what we can get here.  I see in the Herald a letter from Capt Orr in which he gives our company some left handed compliments.  And also I think he gives the Ladies of Union county some very plain hints about a flag, and we have come to the conclusion here in Co "J" that if he is in such a bad way about a flag that perhapse if he would call on the Major of his Regiment that he might be able to furnish him with the one that waved so proudly over our heads in the wilds of Western Virginia.  I think it is one of the most comtemptable letters that I have saw in many a day. and shows what the man is made of better perhapse than a years association

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improvement in regard to their cumfort as they can make the tents very warm and cumfortable in quite cold weather Speaking of the weather. yesterday morning it got quite cold and in the evening it Snowed about 2 inches deep which is our first Snow Storm since leaveing Louisville but as I said before we can keep quite cumfortable in our tents. I am much pleased at receiving Marks letter as I have been anctious to hear from him for some time and I wrote to your Father a day or two since and inquired where to send to so he would get it. I will write to him soon. I am thinking he is mistaken about them being sent to Kentucky. You Spoke about sending me some butter. I wish you would pack 10 or 15 lbs in a crock and then put it in a box and Send it by Express to New Haven as we cant get any here at all scarcely and when we are lucky enough to get a little it is poor stuff and costs us about 40 cents per lb Since writing the above I talked with Crist, Burgess, and Serring and they all want some butter. You send word to Mrs Serring by Sam Serring and see Mr Burgess and Ez Crist and tell them and have it all sent in one Box. and send it as soon as you can conveniently as that is about all we need in the eating line but what we can get here. I see in the Herald a letter from Capt Orr in which he gives our company some left handed compliments. And also I think he gives the Ladies of Union county some very plain hints about a flag, and we have come to the conclusion here in Co "J" that if he is in such a bad way about a flag that perhapse if he would call on the Major of his Regiment that he might be able to furnish him with the one that waved so proudly over our heads in the wilds of Western Virginia. I think it is one of the most comtemptable letters that I have saw in many a day. and shows what the man is made of better perhapse than a years association