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Andrew F. Davis papers, May-December 1861

11_1861-12-23-Page 03

lessons evry night, So that we have hardly time to write a letter to our friends and that is the reason why I have not written oftener of late The boys have always complained that the Officers had the easy times but here the Scenes have changed as we are brought right down to the Strict Military rules & it keeps us watching all the time for fear we will do Something wrong and be put under arrest for non conformity to rules and orders.  We are under the Strictest orders in regard to writing to our friends in regard to our location and numbers &c of our camp and we have to be verry careful how we write for if we should write anything out of the general order and Old Nelson should find it out woe be unto the unlucky wyght for his power would be sure to be felt,  I am Sorry to say that my cook is about to leave me and return home as he has just received a letter that his matters there are getting out of Shape and he is bound to go.  We had just got our mess fairly established.  W. Serring Charles Burgess, McCasterline and myself ware messing together and now he is going I do not know what I am to do as it is impossible to hire another here.  In regard to Hollingsworth I will not by anymore of his lots until he is paid what we now owe him I cannot see what his objet is in being after you for his money for according to my recollection it is not due before Christmas. I would like verry well to have 2 more of the lots at $40 00 per acre but I will wait and see how finantial matters are after the next pay day.  I am verry well pleased with the way you invested the money I sent you and also verry glad that it come to you in So acceptable a time.  The $2 00 to Jeff Immel for John Bell is right and Should be paid whenever it can be Spared, did he pay for the dining table of ours that he has for a counter or not if he did not, See if he wont trade for it and if he wont See if you cannot trade it to Some of the merchants in town  I do not remember any thing about the Adams Account it is on the day book that I Kept of the house and I could find it if there  I see my prophesy in regard to the company at your Fathers is comeing true  Have you heard whether they got the picture I Sent them

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lessons evry night, So that we have hardly time to write a letter to our friends and that is the reason why I have not written oftener of late The boys have always complained that the Officers had the easy times but here the Scenes have changed as we are brought right down to the Strict Military rules & it keeps us watching all the time for fear we will do Something wrong and be put under arrest for non conformity to rules and orders. We are under the Strictest orders in regard to writing to our friends in regard to our location and numbers &c of our camp and we have to be verry careful how we write for if we should write anything out of the general order and Old Nelson should find it out woe be unto the unlucky wyght for his power would be sure to be felt, I am Sorry to say that my cook is about to leave me and return home as he has just received a letter that his matters there are getting out of Shape and he is bound to go. We had just got our mess fairly established. W. Serring Charles Burgess, McCasterline and myself ware messing together and now he is going I do not know what I am to do as it is impossible to hire another here. In regard to Hollingsworth I will not by anymore of his lots until he is paid what we now owe him I cannot see what his objet is in being after you for his money for according to my recollection it is not due before Christmas. I would like verry well to have 2 more of the lots at $40 00 per acre but I will wait and see how finantial matters are after the next pay day. I am verry well pleased with the way you invested the money I sent you and also verry glad that it come to you in So acceptable a time. The $2 00 to Jeff Immel for John Bell is right and Should be paid whenever it can be Spared, did he pay for the dining table of ours that he has for a counter or not if he did not, See if he wont trade for it and if he wont See if you cannot trade it to Some of the merchants in town I do not remember any thing about the Adams Account it is on the day book that I Kept of the house and I could find it if there I see my prophesy in regard to the company at your Fathers is comeing true Have you heard whether they got the picture I Sent them