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Headquarters Camp Friend Hattie I finished a letter to Oscar this morning and I have a little leisure time now so I will try and write a few lines to you to let you know how I am getting along down heare in Dixie. I am enjoying good health at the present time and hope that you are enjoying the same. I have not been sick since I left home but some of the boys have been sick and are sick now but - the boys from Pomfret are all well now - but Edgar Harrington he has been sick some time but it is getting better now Henry Adams and Mark Miller and Henry King have been unwell but they are getting about now we are camped near Alexandria it is about two miles and a half from the city I have been through the city once. I went through to the Vermont Cavalry to see the Morse Boys they were well. I have got a cousin at Alexandria. I have seen him three time since I came to Washington. While I was to Washington I visited the Cappitol. It is a splendid Building. I did not have time to go over half the building. I went to the park and saw Washingtons Statute. I have seen some pretty hard times since I left home but I expect to see harder times before I get home if I ever do but I am in hopes to come home next June just - before I left - Brattleboro I heard that youre schoole had met with quite a loss by the burning of your school house. I suppose it was set on fire by some eman scamp. I think it was a mean dirty trick. I suppose that youre books wer all burned up but Oscar said that youre school was going on nice-;y now I suppose that you are keepping in that House neare the school house. I should think that it would be a nice place for a school but Putnam met with a great loss it was a great loss for him or any one else to meet with. You must excuse my writing for my ink is not very good. It is made out of gar get berry juice and vinegar. My company went out on picket the other day and we found some berries and we thought it would be a nice thing to make some ink. We were out two days it was four miles from Camp to straight but the way that we went it was eight. We had a pretty good time it - did not rain and it was not very Coald. We did not see any Reabels to shoot at while we were gone. There is five regts. encamped heare all from Vermont they have began to build log huts fro winter. They keep us at work all of the time about something when they cannot find anything else to do they set us to work on a forte about a mile from here. We went there to day but it rained some and we came back. It rains some now it is pretty muddy. We have had one snowstorm. I suppose it is winter up in Vermont now but it does not look much like it heare. My sheet is almost full. Give my love to all of youre schollars and to your folks at home. I will write a little to him. I must close now. John Keith is writing to Jasper now perhaps and Steavern Hewitte tent to geather. Keith and his brother and John Chandler so will turn it the oyther side up John. Excuse my bad writing and spelling and write to me. From youre friend Charles L. Clifford P.S. Direct to Washington DC
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