Well Serah I will have to excuse you this time for not wrig to me but I cant excuse you evry time Well Serah I would like to have a warm biscuit the best cind it ant all the time we get enough to eat I thought when I started to war they wanted them that had good teeth for bighting off the Catrages but it is a mistake they wanted them with good teeth so that they could eat Sheetiron Biscuits from what I can learn we will leave here before long When we do leave the talk is that we will have a batle and I hope we will get to Cill a fiew of them before long they say there is two thousand in 25 miles of us / at a place called bolengreen they are throwing up brest works on the side of a hill and have got lots of Canon planted there but they have no small arms only a fiew shot guns. we will slip up on the blind side of them some morning before breakfast and give them some of our pocket pills which I think will work them out of their brest works Well my Dear brother and sister I must now come to a close for the presant So good by hoping to remain your ever affectionate brother untill Death A. Forder to W^m and Sarah A Forder

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