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The money I sent the last time was put in charge of Father Killroy the Catholic Priest at Lafayette and did not get Started from here until the 20th. inst and that accounts for the delay but I presume that you have received it before this time,  The Amount was $140, 00/100 therefore Van was mistaken.  I sent none but what I sent to you nor do not intend to  When you go home call on Wm. Johnson and pay our Tax.  There is a mistake concerning McCasterline.  He was promoted and assigned to Com "C".  He is now acting as Aid to Wagner.  And has the respect of evry one who knows him and I think I never knew a more worthy young man, 
The Health is quite good in our Regiment is considering that we have been so much exposed of late and then we have no water here that is fit to drink neare than 1 1/4 miles of our camp.  The water that we often have to use is most miserable and such as a decent horse or cow would not touch unless compelled to by actual want but Still we often have to use it both for cooking and drinking.  I think we will move soon to someplace where water is plenty if we are not put on a march.  The country litterly swarms with insects and vermin such as worms of evry kind. and wood ticks by the million which often get on to us and insert their bills into our flesh and there they stick and you can pull their bodies off but their heads never.  I often have to scare a green Lizzard out of my bed before laying down therefore you see I am not always without bedfellows, but one gets used to almost anything and we have been used to liveing like hogs so much lately that sometimes

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The money I sent the last time was put in charge of Father Killroy the Catholic Priest at Lafayette and did not get Started from here until the 20th. inst and that accounts for the delay but I presume that you have received it before this time, The Amount was $140, 00/100 therefore Van was mistaken. I sent none but what I sent to you nor do not intend to When you go home call on Wm. Johnson and pay our Tax. There is a mistake concerning McCasterline. He was promoted and assigned to Com "C". He is now acting as Aid to Wagner. And has the respect of evry one who knows him and I think I never knew a more worthy young man, The Health is quite good in our Regiment is considering that we have been so much exposed of late and then we have no water here that is fit to drink neare than 1 1/4 miles of our camp. The water that we often have to use is most miserable and such as a decent horse or cow would not touch unless compelled to by actual want but Still we often have to use it both for cooking and drinking. I think we will move soon to someplace where water is plenty if we are not put on a march. The country litterly swarms with insects and vermin such as worms of evry kind. and wood ticks by the million which often get on to us and insert their bills into our flesh and there they stick and you can pull their bodies off but their heads never. I often have to scare a green Lizzard out of my bed before laying down therefore you see I am not always without bedfellows, but one gets used to almost anything and we have been used to liveing like hogs so much lately that sometimes