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Washington City D.C. 7

time after we entered the service, I saw Jacob McKenney on the street and he told me the Levant boys wer all well.

  8th  I went on guard. We lay in the city untill 4 o'clock P.M. and then started acros the long bridge into Va for the first time, an still on to Arlington Heights. We lay near Fort Crage that night. Colonal Ames was disgusted with our appearense and gave us a brief speach as he halted us, saying if we could not do better than that we had better desert.

 9th  Near night we moved acrost a small creak onto a hill and went into camp for the night.

 10th  We cleard of our camp ground and while I was at work carelessly got hold of some poison oak which made me sick for a week. I was swolen so that I had to be excused from duty. There was quite a number of others in the same condition.

 11th  In the morning the orders came to get ready to move. We packed up and was waiting for the order to move. I could scarsly see out of my eyes, on account of my face being swolen so bad.