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From G.J. Huntley to friends and relations, November 22, 1861, page 2

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  • I have been helping cook some little. I think I will get up to that business before long. I can inform you that to my regret there is a good deal of sickness here. There is about 180 of this Regiment in the hospital. The diseases is measles and mumps mostly. I can inform you that me and Tolliver has some of the pies and bread that we brought from Rutherford yet. Tolliver is well and he has been out this morning running doubell quick. I run doubell quick about one hour or nearly that yesterday. It made the [sweat bile?]. I want you to have me a linsey shirt made and send it by Mr. Jones. You can get some coat lining at Phillip Davises that will answer, or if you can get some thin linsey woolen cloth it will do very well. Don't make it out of jean for it will be too thick. They have not appointed their musicians yet. I think that there is one old fifer here that will be appointed on the account of his age. He is very old and a tolerable good fifer, and I am in as good a place as I wish to be. I don't have to stand guard nor do much else. The supposition is that we will leave here in a few days for east Tennessee. Some seems to think that we will take up here for winter, but from all I can learn, I think we will leave in two or three weeks. As for your coming, stay at home and take care of the rest. So, I must come to a close. So I want you all to write now and all my friends and relatives to write, especially Martha Hamilton. Direct your letter to Guilford County, High Point, in care of Cap Simmons.
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