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with you, that the time is not far distant, when I shall again meet my friends at home. I heard a fine Preacher preach last
sunday, (there is a Tenn Regt.? camped here) his sermon was very god. I guess John the folks up there would think it quite
a treat to hear a Tennesseean preach, would'nt they? We are having a young snow storm here, however I dont think it will last
long. I believe there is very little snow in these diggings, it has been beautiful weather since I have been here. I received
a letter from Dave a short time ago, and was surprised to hear that he was a clerk or in the counterjumping business as he
calls it. I have just received a paper from home giving a list of the drafted men in Marquette Co. Chancey Strong is one
drafted in B. illegible and John R. Duncan Robert Graham and several others I know. You said you would like to make me a visit,
I would like first rate to have you, so come along make me a call. Well John I must close this short letter. Good bye. I am
truly your friend Alfred B. Brown 608 P.S.? Excuse this short letter. I trust I shall have something of more interest
to tell you next time I write. Please write me soon, as often as you are a mind to. A.B.B. illegible as before Camp D. Co.
C. 23rd Wis vol? (Ohio Ward 28