I think I
will be no worse than some officers. Well, Mrs William Parkinson, last Sunday morning after I came off picket, I went to
the Dr. and actually got vaccinated, and it has taken hold, my arm is getting sore.
I know it is going to be very sore, and I guess I will be very sorry I had it done,
but it is too late. I hope you will not write me any more sermons on the subject.
You ask so many questions in your letters that I do not know when I can answer them.
If I could remember them, I would answer all of them. You asked where I eat, and who
cooked for me, and supposed it was a neg gal. I eat in a little plank shanty I had
put up just in the rear of the tent, and I have a negro man cooking for me. McElhaney,
1st Lieut., Smith, 2nd Lieut, and Baltzell, Orderly Sergeant mess with me. I have a boy
to black my boots and get me water and any other little things I want done. He is
a soldier, so I pay nothing, so is the cook. We are not mustered out now in it yet,
and have not drawn any pay. I do not know how long back I will draw Capt pay, but
I think it will be from the 10th of April. But if not from then, it will be from the
first of May. We received our appointments from old Abe a few days ago, and
it says I was to rank as Captain from the 10th of April. You ask about clothing, I
have written about that and I guess you have the letter before this.
