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Marcellus W. Darling letters, 1862-1863
12_1862-11-24-Page 03
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up our tent with two small logs on each sige & banked it up so you see we slept warm last night though it was very cold, cold enough to freeze the ground considerable, but still Monroe & Deloss & myself hugged up to gather & slept warm as pigs, I was out on picket Friday & had lots of fun picket duty is different from what I thought it was before I was on duty it is fun. I went up to a house to buy some milk but the old Lady; (yes & it was a lady) had'nt got any milk so I made a trade with her for a loaf of bread, it was baked on a tin plait so you see it was not very large, but at least I could afford to pay 10 cts,, for
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up our tent with two small logs on each sige & banked it up so you see we slept warm last night though it was very cold, cold enough to freeze the ground considerable, but still Monroe & Deloss & myself hugged up to gather & slept warm as pigs, I was out on picket Friday & had lots of fun picket duty is different from what I thought it was before I was on duty it is fun. I went up to a house to buy some milk but the old Lady; (yes & it was a lady) had'nt got any milk so I made a trade with her for a loaf of bread, it was baked on a tin plait so you see it was not very large, but at least I could afford to pay 10 cts,, for
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