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the medical department thier option in choosing
from the army or from citizens their Apothecary
at a Military post - They detailed me as a
citizen for Post Apothecary at a Salary of $28.50
per month and board & lodging in the most
comfortable quarters in camp but no uniform
my salary is 25.00 and the 3.50 is for clothing
which I will get and it is a splendid uniform
Crimson trimmings and a gold lace shoulder
strap with a green velvet [ground] and Esculapius'
(the god of Medicine) sign thus on arm [figure of the sign] I have
no uniform yet as Dr McVickar has not adjusted
my case yet with the proper authorities -
This is likely to be a military post during
the war and half an hour ago there were a lot of
guerilla's brought in from Colorado - the roughest
toughest men this side Pandemonium I ever gazed
on - I shall be here if all goes well 3 years -
the 3 months men will be muster'd out in 11 days
and to morrow 5000 men will come in -
My work dont commence till 9 then I open
the federal Drug store put up about 700 presns
which with secesh to wash up after me takes me
till 4 oclock, then stragglers come in and when
they are through I go round camp smoking
and chatting with the Morris boys or intelligent
Southerners. Why Celia one of my best com-
panions in this prison is a secesh from New
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