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1862-09-05 Page 2
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Whitney Rodgers Chester Comstock Charles Strickland Charles turner (that worked for me) Ransom Smith Evin S Mosher T [V?] York A Townsend A Kanader and nearly all of Sterlingville we wen to sackets harbour last Thursday to a soldiers picnic and a good old time we had to thay are the best feeling set of fellows you ever saw there is about 1800 there more comeing all the time thay are building new quartes for 500 more it is lively times down there butt it is lonesome around here thare has a good many gone to Cannada to escape the draft George and Sam Evens wint old [Vick] took them thare butt did not get away soon enough to clear him from the new order that came out the day he left with them the officers [coolly?] told him and Amos thay would give them 3 or 4 days to get them back and sign $100.00 to the bounty fund or thay would put them through a cours of medicin that thay was not used to the boys came back forth with and feel cheap enough to we are under about the same as martial law her a man can not go out of the county without a pass I never expected to see such times here I am afraid we shall see worse butt it does not seem as though the war could last long when those 600.000 new troops get in the field and under the new order the battle of Bull run last week seems to tell Better for our side than it did last year but the pat of war is uncrtin.
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Whitney Rodgers Chester Comstock Charles Strickland Charles turner (that worked for me) Ransom Smith Evin S Mosher T [V?] York A Townsend A Kanader and nearly all of Sterlingville we wen to sackets harbour last Thursday to a soldiers picnic and a good old time we had to thay are the best feeling set of fellows you ever saw there is about 1800 there more comeing all the time thay are building new quartes for 500 more it is lively times down there butt it is lonesome around here thare has a good many gone to Cannada to escape the draft George and Sam Evens wint old [Vick] took them thare butt did not get away soon enough to clear him from the new order that came out the day he left with them the officers [coolly?] told him and Amos thay would give them 3 or 4 days to get them back and sign $100.00 to the bounty fund or thay would put them through a cours of medicin that thay was not used to the boys came back forth with and feel cheap enough to we are under about the same as martial law her a man can not go out of the county without a pass I never expected to see such times here I am afraid we shall see worse butt it does not seem as though the war could last long when those 600.000 new troops get in the field and under the new order the battle of Bull run last week seems to tell Better for our side than it did last year but the pat of war is uncrtin.
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