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few in the hospital -- The men growl about their fare though -- they get as good as I expected to get when I enlisted -- they have a pound of hard bread to each man a day and it is the best hard bread, I ever saw -- A great many talk of starving but when they have pork, throwing it away because they do not like it so much as before -- They say they not ask to live any better than they did when ashore, but they growled, just as [inserted] bad then as they do now -- They have not had a thing to do since we came aboard but they thought it very hard because 40 of the regt were detailed to shovel a little coal --

The weather is good not very hot nor very cold [flourish]

I have enjoyed myself well since I left home -- We have not seen many very hard times yet but I expect we shall soon

We have not heard from Annapolis since an [?]

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