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breakfasted - and resumed my visit to the camp sent in my
card and Dr Hale sent me a pass in - oh ye Gods and little
fishes what a sight 9000 ragged - dirty solvenly - bevermined
Secesh in adundance - and lots of Uncle Sam's boys
butternut and blue are the cardinal colors here -
Dr Hale has his office in the chaplain's room E.B. [Tulth]
(Episcopalian) lots of books in his office prayer books, bibles
Pilgrims progresse's - Harpers, Dickens etc waited there
while Dr Hale wrote 150 or two hundred prescriptions
Dr McVickar was not in and Dr Hale went to a
funerel so I was left prisoner for I could get no pass
and only the colonel could give me one - dined
with the post apothecary at Head Quarters in the rear
of the Federal Drug Store - slept with Dr McVickars clerk
Woke in the morning (not by Bessie" saying "my [shtars]
git up" for are ye's shlaping fur till brickfast time" but) by
the booming of a big brass cannon about 20 yards from
head quarters, if the sound of a ladys whisper the softest
marks on fine paper a mark thus [squiggly line] surely the noise
of a cannon must be thus [bold vertical lines] - ala [E]. Sanford
But breakfast at head quarters being ready I was
not slow to participate and the food being the cream
of the hospital store it was delicious forsooth." but
they make Uncle Sam pay for things
I finally saw Dr McVickar - he gave me a
situation as Assistant Post Apothecary and as
there is a clause in the army regulations giving
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