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Maine Hospital May 21 1861
        
     Dear Wife
                   I sit down a few moments to write
you a few lines to let you know about a soldier
life  we fared hard enough when I was up home
I returned to camp that day I left home  I found
the company camping out souldier like with half enough
to eat  I staid to the camp two nights without any
supper and could not get any  the third day I
made out to get a little supper  the fourth day I was
detached from the company by the surgeon to
take the Ward master Berth  the two first nights
I was here I slept on the floor with nothing over
nor under me except any cloths I had on  I got
a cold that I shall cary to the grave with me
I have just been able to do duty here and that is
all  Dr Richardson our Surgeon is one of the finest
men in the world and he favours me very much
or I could not get along  he wants me to go with
him as long as he goes but I have got soldiering
enough now to last me the remainder of my 
life time  I shall not stay only my three months
out any how  tell Arabine & Lyman I would write
to them but I do not have time to tell them to