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11_1862-05-21-Page 03

We get the dailey papers here almost evry day by paying 15 cents each for them, which are generally 5 or 6 days old but then it is news to us.  So we keep partly posted on what is going on in the country,  It would surprise you to see how cheerful and unconcerned the boys are when the cannon and musketry are raiseing a perfect din within one mile of them.  Some will be sleeping, some reading their Bibles Some a rusty old novel, some a newspaper, Some playing cards and some chatting sociably together, but the sound has become so familiar to them that they will not even look up. or hardly ever make a remark concerning it.  And it is often remarked by the boys that their friends at home are at the present time much more concerned about them than what they are themselves.  But such is human nature - that they will get used to almost anything, 
I received a letter from Ferman this moing and also one from Van, both of date the 12th.  All are well and flourishing there,  The good people of Liberty had some kind of an exhibition for the benefit of the Soldiers Some few days since and in the decorations of the room there was a Silk flag used which was furnished by the Lady of one Major Bennett.  In putting it up, pains was taken to hide the Motto on it but by accident one of the letters peeped out and was recognized by someone present, as looking somewhat familiar but nothing was said at the time but in the morning the flag was missing which created considerable excitement in certain upper 10 circles and a reward offered for its recovery but at last accounts nothing was known of it,  You no doubt can guess what flag it was, and I would not be surprised that if the Liberty boys of Co. "I" 15 Ind. are ever so luckey as to go home in a body that they will be met withe the flag under which they marched under to the defence of their country on May 6th 1861, but which so mysteriously disappeared from them on the 2nd day of July 1861 while on the Boat going from Laurenceburg to Cincinnati

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We get the dailey papers here almost evry day by paying 15 cents each for them, which are generally 5 or 6 days old but then it is news to us. So we keep partly posted on what is going on in the country, It would surprise you to see how cheerful and unconcerned the boys are when the cannon and musketry are raiseing a perfect din within one mile of them. Some will be sleeping, some reading their Bibles Some a rusty old novel, some a newspaper, Some playing cards and some chatting sociably together, but the sound has become so familiar to them that they will not even look up. or hardly ever make a remark concerning it. And it is often remarked by the boys that their friends at home are at the present time much more concerned about them than what they are themselves. But such is human nature - that they will get used to almost anything, I received a letter from Ferman this moing and also one from Van, both of date the 12th. All are well and flourishing there, The good people of Liberty had some kind of an exhibition for the benefit of the Soldiers Some few days since and in the decorations of the room there was a Silk flag used which was furnished by the Lady of one Major Bennett. In putting it up, pains was taken to hide the Motto on it but by accident one of the letters peeped out and was recognized by someone present, as looking somewhat familiar but nothing was said at the time but in the morning the flag was missing which created considerable excitement in certain upper 10 circles and a reward offered for its recovery but at last accounts nothing was known of it, You no doubt can guess what flag it was, and I would not be surprised that if the Liberty boys of Co. "I" 15 Ind. are ever so luckey as to go home in a body that they will be met withe the flag under which they marched under to the defence of their country on May 6th 1861, but which so mysteriously disappeared from them on the 2nd day of July 1861 while on the Boat going from Laurenceburg to Cincinnati