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or two. He has two good looking daughters
and a smart woman but they are the
[...ingest?] of [?] and do not deny it
[A?] [p...?] may [?] [?] the men to [Guard?]
a rich mans house and every poor man
in the country leave his last pig and chicken
The men made up [on?] their minds Monday
to have the fat of the land and thus far
they have carried it out. Turkeys, Chickin
and Sheep & pigs [f...?] [kind?]. Yesterday
I helped to kill a nice fat pig belonging
to the man I am now Guarding and he
must rut the rest [closed?] [up?] or we will
[f...?] his [eatbles?]. The first four days we
were out here we [found?] [?] [kind?] we
brought only two [days?] rations with us and
small cases at that and Sunday when
we marched all we had after breakfast
until Monday morning was two hard tacks
and then we [?] our own [?]
of the [people?] here. To day we [?] [two?]
days [?] and we may stay here
some time yet A [great?] many reports [are?]
stiring here some say we are making a
faint to keep Lee from moving and
others say Lee has moved and is between
Baltimore & Washington and that we
are going in his rear toward Richmond
but I have found the only way to tell
when such reports are true are when
they [?] [papers?] We came out here with
only our Rubber blankets leaving our
knap sacks in camp expecting to go
in again in two days. We have no change
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