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Andrew F. Davis papers, 1862
15_1862-06-29-Page 03
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all probability we may have to proceed on in that direction as proceeding seems to be the order for us but somehow we always proceed a little too late as the enemy had always preceeded us just as we were ready to proceed on to them but then it will all come right in the end. The Captain has gone to the camp to see if we have not got a mail so I will put this by until he comes back and perhaps he may bring me a letter. Well it is Monday morning June 30th and no papers or letters yet therefore I hardly know what to write about. We are now so situated that a person can go from here to Indianapolis in 36 hours and oh, how I wish I could start this morning and go but such a thing as leave of absence is out of the question now therefore I think as little about it as possible but still I must acknowledge that I am homesick to a certain extent but I let it bother me as little as possible. There is not a man in our Company on the sick list this morning which is the first time such a thing has happened for some time. Therefore you see our health is good. Yesterday being sunday (which is always a holliday for slaves) consequently they ware plenty around camp trading us eatables so that we are liveing fine on almost evrything we could wish for breakfast as we have fried potatoes fried chicken boiled egg flitter cakes cream and blackberries &c but now it is a feast perhapse in a few days we will be on the march and then we will come down to hard crackers fat bacon and coffee but so goes the life of a soldier. Well there is another phase of a soldiers taken place in our company of another character. Jim Dalzell has been running off evry day and shirking duty and yesterday morning he went off as usual and did not return until this morning when the Captain ordered him bucked and he resisted and in the scuffle with the Captain he the capt. shot at him with a revolver but missed him and then Jeff Wolfe come to the rescue of the Cap. and and knocked Dalzell down with his gun therefore he had to knock under and he is now setting near by in the uncomfortable position of being bucked which is done by tying the rists together and
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all probability we may have to proceed on in that direction as proceeding seems to be the order for us but somehow we always proceed a little too late as the enemy had always preceeded us just as we were ready to proceed on to them but then it will all come right in the end. The Captain has gone to the camp to see if we have not got a mail so I will put this by until he comes back and perhaps he may bring me a letter. Well it is Monday morning June 30th and no papers or letters yet therefore I hardly know what to write about. We are now so situated that a person can go from here to Indianapolis in 36 hours and oh, how I wish I could start this morning and go but such a thing as leave of absence is out of the question now therefore I think as little about it as possible but still I must acknowledge that I am homesick to a certain extent but I let it bother me as little as possible. There is not a man in our Company on the sick list this morning which is the first time such a thing has happened for some time. Therefore you see our health is good. Yesterday being sunday (which is always a holliday for slaves) consequently they ware plenty around camp trading us eatables so that we are liveing fine on almost evrything we could wish for breakfast as we have fried potatoes fried chicken boiled egg flitter cakes cream and blackberries &c but now it is a feast perhapse in a few days we will be on the march and then we will come down to hard crackers fat bacon and coffee but so goes the life of a soldier. Well there is another phase of a soldiers taken place in our company of another character. Jim Dalzell has been running off evry day and shirking duty and yesterday morning he went off as usual and did not return until this morning when the Captain ordered him bucked and he resisted and in the scuffle with the Captain he the capt. shot at him with a revolver but missed him and then Jeff Wolfe come to the rescue of the Cap. and and knocked Dalzell down with his gun therefore he had to knock under and he is now setting near by in the uncomfortable position of being bucked which is done by tying the rists together and
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