men found them, but they were too far off to do any damage. We marched all over the town, and came back to a bridge and guarded it all night. Slept on the ground without blankets and scarcely anything to eat. We hooked some rosten ears and Irish potatoes and roasted them, and, I tell you, they tasted good even without salt. The Copples are all in good health and enjoying themselves finely and first rate fellows. Jacob is [number] one, and Rushes are the true grit, I think. I believe John Boggs is as brave as a lion. Joe Worley is doing finely and a civiler fellow here than at home. Some of the Co. in this Regiment (11) are not near full, the smallest one (17 men) I guess will be put in our Co. and their Captain made our First Lieutenant, and our First Lieutenant thrown out. He is sick and has not been here yet. I see Wylie and Raineys nearly every day. They are doing finely. Silas McWilliams is in the hospital tolerably sick. He is very well attended to, everything is nice and clean in the hospital, and very nice women to wait on the sick. I have just been over to see Silas, he is not any better. Day before yesterday four of our scouting pickets was fired into by sixty Secesh cavalry. They either killed one of our men or took
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