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Dec 7th
I feel that you will get out of patience waiting
for this letter but I have had hardly time to think since
I returned my monthly reports were past due + I had
to make them all alone and there has been three times
the amount of extra work that there usualy is this
must be my excuse I should however have written you
a short letter but for the chaplains going just as he did
which would remove all anxiety and assure you of
my safety and now I must continue the events of the campaign
and I am reminded while sitting here in my warm
cosey tent with everything fixed up and arranged to
my satisfaction of the capture that I made on the morning
of the reconnaissance which was nothing more or
less than a good specimen of a wall tent in which
I am enjoying myself now we found a deserted rebel
camp they got in such a hurry that they left their tents
standing and also left a large amount of quartermasters
stores - I captured one of the tents and carried on my
horse to where the wagons were coming along and
left my boy to guard it It is very difficult to draw any tents
through the quartermasters Dept now other than shelter tents