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nothing needed badly by the boys at the present time but butter and such things always come acceptable and just here let me tell you that the next time a Box is sent I want you to make me a good large Cake and send me as I think I could relish such a treat about as well as I do the excellent butter and fruit you sent me. There is one suggestion I would make to the Ladies Aid society and that is for them to gather up and forward to me a small box full of books and papers such as they have laying around loose and which is doing them no good but would be a great treat to the boys. Copies of all the popular periodicals such as magazines and Literary papers, and any other good pamphlet books will be acceptable as we are a reading Company if we can get them herewith to read. I would not advise the sending of bound books as they are too unhandy to carry.   Well perhaps you would like to know if we have any news here and I will say that we are under orders to march forward from here next Sunday, the 9th Inst. As near as I can find out we are going forward to Green River 17 miles from here, but whether any further or not at present I do not know, but even that change I think will be beneficial as it will be a change and will bring us nearer the enemy which I think will make the boys more lively and it will give them more excitement and that is what a Soldier needs. The whole division will go forward. I wrote some days since that our Captain had got into trouble with our chaplain and would probably have some trouble with the matter. So I will tell you how he got it settled. There was charges made out against him which would bring the matter before a Court Martial which would in all probability have resulted in his commission being taken from him. He saw that it might go hard with him so he went to the Chaplain and begged like a whipped

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nothing needed badly by the boys at the present time but butter and such things always come acceptable and just here let me tell you that the next time a Box is sent I want you to make me a good large Cake and send me as I think I could relish such a treat about as well as I do the excellent butter and fruit you sent me. There is one suggestion I would make to the Ladies Aid society and that is for them to gather up and forward to me a small box full of books and papers such as they have laying around loose and which is doing them no good but would be a great treat to the boys. Copies of all the popular periodicals such as magazines and Literary papers, and any other good pamphlet books will be acceptable as we are a reading Company if we can get them herewith to read. I would not advise the sending of bound books as they are too unhandy to carry. Well perhaps you would like to know if we have any news here and I will say that we are under orders to march forward from here next Sunday, the 9th Inst. As near as I can find out we are going forward to Green River 17 miles from here, but whether any further or not at present I do not know, but even that change I think will be beneficial as it will be a change and will bring us nearer the enemy which I think will make the boys more lively and it will give them more excitement and that is what a Soldier needs. The whole division will go forward. I wrote some days since that our Captain had got into trouble with our chaplain and would probably have some trouble with the matter. So I will tell you how he got it settled. There was charges made out against him which would bring the matter before a Court Martial which would in all probability have resulted in his commission being taken from him. He saw that it might go hard with him so he went to the Chaplain and begged like a whipped