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		Camp Kellogg Nov 21

	Dear brother and sister
	I take my pen in
	    hand to let
	    you know that
  	    I am very well
and doing well at present
I did not return to camp un
till monday after I was
with you when I got
home the day that I left
there I found that George
had not got home yet
and he did not get home
un till about twelve 
oclock at night but I
Supose that you have
heard all this before this
time [crossed out word] when I got on
the cars monday I found
Several that ware four and
five days behind him

but [crossed out letter] there was nothing
Said or done for it  When
we got in to camp we
		       dred
found about four hon^
horses here the next day
I was detailed with several
others to water and feed
them they ware fed there
grain in bags with leather
bottoms put on thear heads
with astrap and there hay
was spread [crossed out word] while we ware
watering them at the
river about amile from camp
last friday the horses ware
devided each company has their
their collor ours are half way
[illegible] [crossed out word] lite and dark
bay we have fifty five
there is about eight
		          now
hundred horses here was^
the men are drilling

on horseback every day
day before yesterday the
Colonel took the whole
regiment four or five miles
out in to the country
and round a Square and
[crossed out] [round]    back to camp
yesterday for noon the
Captain took our company
out about amile and
we went to jumping our
horses over a pole the Second
horse that went over
the pole [catched?] his
knees on the pole and
fell his hind parts going
			      ht
over his head we all thoug^
that he had broken his
neck but he did not Such
axidents are very common
here there is one horse in
Co G that lays down in 

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Nov. 21                  Camp Kellog

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with his rider every time 
that he goes in to the river
We have received our bounty
but not our pay though
we have the promise of it
Soon          [crossed out letter]
It begins to look quite
military around here
there is two cannon here
and four ammunition
waggons
But I have not much [illegible]
more space now

No B I hope that this
will find you all as
well as I am at present
Write as soon as you get this
and let [crossed out word] we know
how you get along
    From your Brother
    G W Mattoon