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got better and today I am as well as ever, and ready for anything that turns up.  The Union Co. boys are all well.  Major Bennett and Lieut King took Supper with me the night before we started from Iuka.  Cap. Jim Orr. is played out and has sent in his resignation and is going home  I think he had better staid there at first.  The inhabitants here are all Strong Secesh and do not take the pains to hide their sentiments.  The most of the inhabitants of this place are nearly all here as they did not scare bad enough to leave but they have a strong hatred for the yankees or Lincoln ites as they call us.  I was strolling through the village this morning and passed a lady who was at her gate with her children.  She asked me where we ware going. and many other questions, and during the conversation she took the opertunity to show off the smartness of her little 3 year old boy (who by the way is as fine a specimen of infantile beauty as I ever saw)  He could tell who was the Federal President (Old Abe) also who was the Confed. President (Jeff Davis) and many other such questions, but before she quit talking she led me to believe that in some things at least she did not give very good instruction to her interresting and intelligent brood.  For instance she said that the children ware taught to think that the Lincoln ites ware animals or monsters and would bite.  She said when our forces first come here 6 or 7 days since, the children all come runing into the house saying Oh Mother Mother the yankees have come and they are all men, therefore I think they ware badly disappointed as they expected to see something not human.  In all probability we will leave here in one or two days but where to I cannot say for certain but it is generally believed that we will go to Decatur Alabama and there remain and garrison the place for awhile. but this may all be only guess work as a Soldier knows nothing until after it is done,  The mail has just arrived and by it I received you letter of the 2nd inst, and I must say that the northern people are very easy scared. and if we know anything about it is the Southern Army who are being scattered in place of ours.  And the new call for troops only makes me think the war will the sooner be ended as it shows the South that we are in earnest and that we are bound to conquer them in the end and the

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got better and today I am as well as ever, and ready for anything that turns up. The Union Co. boys are all well. Major Bennett and Lieut King took Supper with me the night before we started from Iuka. Cap. Jim Orr. is played out and has sent in his resignation and is going home I think he had better staid there at first. The inhabitants here are all Strong Secesh and do not take the pains to hide their sentiments. The most of the inhabitants of this place are nearly all here as they did not scare bad enough to leave but they have a strong hatred for the yankees or Lincoln ites as they call us. I was strolling through the village this morning and passed a lady who was at her gate with her children. She asked me where we ware going. and many other questions, and during the conversation she took the opertunity to show off the smartness of her little 3 year old boy (who by the way is as fine a specimen of infantile beauty as I ever saw) He could tell who was the Federal President (Old Abe) also who was the Confed. President (Jeff Davis) and many other such questions, but before she quit talking she led me to believe that in some things at least she did not give very good instruction to her interresting and intelligent brood. For instance she said that the children ware taught to think that the Lincoln ites ware animals or monsters and would bite. She said when our forces first come here 6 or 7 days since, the children all come runing into the house saying Oh Mother Mother the yankees have come and they are all men, therefore I think they ware badly disappointed as they expected to see something not human. In all probability we will leave here in one or two days but where to I cannot say for certain but it is generally believed that we will go to Decatur Alabama and there remain and garrison the place for awhile. but this may all be only guess work as a Soldier knows nothing until after it is done, The mail has just arrived and by it I received you letter of the 2nd inst, and I must say that the northern people are very easy scared. and if we know anything about it is the Southern Army who are being scattered in place of ours. And the new call for troops only makes me think the war will the sooner be ended as it shows the South that we are in earnest and that we are bound to conquer them in the end and the