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Andrew F. Davis papers, May-December 1861

06_1861-12-08-Page 02

next pay day with what I sent you 
I drew $186 00/100 that being the amount due me up to the last of day of October.  You perhapse think by me drawing that amount that I might have sent home more so I will give you a brief sketch of what it has cost me since I left home.  I hired a cook at Oxford and had to pay his way here So that when I got here I had only 10 cents in my pocket and owed J. W. Walton $3,75 that I borrowed to help me through. Then I had to pay 75 cents to get my trunk brought to camp.  So I borrowed $5 00 to pay Walton and for the trunk. Then the boxes of goods come and the charges on them was $7,50 and then I paid $1.00 to get the boxes hauled to camp and I bought a camp Stove for $2.50 and borrowed $10.00 to pay them bills and the $40,00 that I borrowed when I went home made $55,00 dollars borrowed money. and then I bought a camp table and other equippage such as tin dishes and cooking untensils (as they had not brought my things from Virginia) which in all cost me 8 or 9 dollars more So that when I had paid all these debts and had sent you what I did I had only about $40 00 left and now after letting Serring have that I have only about $20 00 and I do not want to reduce myself much lower at present as I do not Know but what I Shall need Some before pay day. The boys made up $4 1/2 dollars of the money for the boxes. and the balance I will get of the Surgeon if I can and if I cannot I will send the amount to the ladies committee who sent it and let them pay you. 
The boys were well pleased with their presents and some of them were badly needed. The Surgeon was particularly pleased with the box Sent to

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next pay day with what I sent you I drew $186 00/100 that being the amount due me up to the last of day of October. You perhapse think by me drawing that amount that I might have sent home more so I will give you a brief sketch of what it has cost me since I left home. I hired a cook at Oxford and had to pay his way here So that when I got here I had only 10 cents in my pocket and owed J. W. Walton $3,75 that I borrowed to help me through. Then I had to pay 75 cents to get my trunk brought to camp. So I borrowed $5 00 to pay Walton and for the trunk. Then the boxes of goods come and the charges on them was $7,50 and then I paid $1.00 to get the boxes hauled to camp and I bought a camp Stove for $2.50 and borrowed $10.00 to pay them bills and the $40,00 that I borrowed when I went home made $55,00 dollars borrowed money. and then I bought a camp table and other equippage such as tin dishes and cooking untensils (as they had not brought my things from Virginia) which in all cost me 8 or 9 dollars more So that when I had paid all these debts and had sent you what I did I had only about $40 00 left and now after letting Serring have that I have only about $20 00 and I do not want to reduce myself much lower at present as I do not Know but what I Shall need Some before pay day. The boys made up $4 1/2 dollars of the money for the boxes. and the balance I will get of the Surgeon if I can and if I cannot I will send the amount to the ladies committee who sent it and let them pay you. The boys were well pleased with their presents and some of them were badly needed. The Surgeon was particularly pleased with the box Sent to