your good work. Perhaps the 80th Reg may get it. I have often asked in letters who was the Lieu in Jim Cunningham's company, but I do not know, nor never have heard. I sent $10 to Zetty by McKee. I have about fifty left. I thought it best to keep plenty, no telling what may happen before we get our next pay or how long it will be. I sent it to Zetty because I hated to send so small amount to you, use what you want of it. I sent you a bone ring just for fun. I sent my watch by him to Lee to have it fixed and regulated if it can be. If it cannot be, keep it as a relic of Donelson and Shiloh . I wish you would send me 2 shirts by McKee, not checked nor white, but a kind of cotton flannel [undecipherable] and striped. I do not know what kind of stuff, you know. And send letters all of you. It makes me so mad for anyone to come and bring no letters. I do hope we will be some place this summer you can come and see me. I have written James ten letters to every one I ever had from him. I have got some pretty tough jokes from James, but I know him and cared nothing for them. I have no hard feeling against him or any of the rest. I have not wrote to James as often as Leander because I had three letters from Lee to one from Jim. I often write four to him and had none. The citizens say we are camped in one of the richest settlements in La and the plantations look like [it]. We have burnt every rail for miles around (say ten), taken nearly everything they had. What was not taken has been stolen. Kiss Zetty and Vernon for me and tell [undecipherable] not to be uneasy about me and [undecipherable]. William
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