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pleasant as living at home, it is much better than I expected.  Our food is rather coarse and our cooks would not rank as first rate, but still good health and a keen appetite prevents our being fastidious  Sleeping on boards is a luxury many of us never enjoyed before, and is one that  good exercise in drilling enables us to appreciate.  We have not yet received our Uniforms and don't look much like soldiers but one of these days we will "fix up," with the "brass coat and blue buttons" and other trimmings, when I expect to strut around as big as anybody.
I hope that you will succeed in playing School-Ma'am, and that you will have no occasion to use your power in subduing the little rebels placed under your care to the properly constituted authorities and Hoping farther that you will condescend to answer this letter, and allow me the pleasure of continuing the correspondence  I subscribe myself
Very Respectfully Your Friend 
Sam Calvin
P.S. Address 44th Regt. Ia. Vol. 
Davenport Iowa
care of Capt, McKean
S. C.

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pleasant as living at home, it is much better than I expected. Our food is rather coarse and our cooks would not rank as first rate, but still good health and a keen appetite prevents our being fastidious Sleeping on boards is a luxury many of us never enjoyed before, and is one that good exercise in drilling enables us to appreciate. We have not yet received our Uniforms and don't look much like soldiers but one of these days we will "fix up," with the "brass coat and blue buttons" and other trimmings, when I expect to strut around as big as anybody. I hope that you will succeed in playing School-Ma'am, and that you will have no occasion to use your power in subduing the little rebels placed under your care to the properly constituted authorities and Hoping farther that you will condescend to answer this letter, and allow me the pleasure of continuing the correspondence I subscribe myself Very Respectfully Your Friend Sam Calvin P.S. Address 44th Regt. Ia. Vol. Davenport Iowa care of Capt, McKean S. C.