Sunday evening March 22 1863

 

I concluded to write a little more as I cant send it today I have just washed my self and been to a rebel house near by the orchard is white with peach and plumb blossoms the yard dressed with flowers of all collors it was beautiful it put me in mind of such yards at Bucyrus in may or June this man is a Ceech and has a son in the rebel army we are campt on his plantation we have releived him of most of his cedar fences one large wheetfield is open and his young mules 20 or 30 of them running on it there is not a fence standing entire on this farm / the farms here are larger than in Ohio I notised his farming tools there war as much as 25 plows in one pile and cultivators and shovel plows without number he has a splendid house and every thing nice around except niggers there is nearly 100 of them ugly greesy things dumb as oxen I forgot we had 3 scouts here last night one of them was out all night he belongs to Rosecranse Army he goes out every night and into the enemyes camps and he sais he knows every foot of ground in 15 miles of here he is a sharper he went to make his report to day he wouldent tell us anything only he said we would not be atacted today

 

            I wil close

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