for you cannot see into their hearts  Trust mankind for their manhood  There are many men in this regiment that were devout & zealous crhistians at home men respected & reveranced at home, that can now swear with impunity & without provocation  While there are others that never made any pretensions to religion, men who were looked uppon as good moral men, good citizens, but were looked on by these loud toned hypocrites, as reprobates, who are the same steady good men they were at home. But I will change my theme to something more pleasant  Mary I must close & leave a part of my sheet blank  I am sorry for it. Tell Cy I will write to him when I get to Pilot Knob  Your affectovate Heusband  L A Garrett
