Sunday eve Oct 15th
 My Dear girl. I am happy for another privilege of communicating my thoughts to you.  I have been buissy since yesterday evening.  so that I have not had time to write.  This morning we had inspection drill.  Then church then dinner. and this evening we have Batattion drill & dress parade so that you can see that we are kept pretty buissy indeed soldering is a hard business.  I think that the exercises to day had a good effect.  I hear the boys all round talking that they intend to quit swearing. the Col after we were marched to the place of holding meting took the bass drum & stood on it. & talked to us beautifully for nearly half an hour.  Then Burton preached a short sermon Some of the boys refused to go and were compelled to go.  They generally appeared to be glad that they had gone. One poor fellow, about the hardest case we have came to his tent from church & took the likenesses of his wife & child from his valise  I saw him appear to be in trouble & went over to him & he was looking at them & crying like a child the tears runing down his cheeks he said he had not looked at them for two or three weeks.  I told him to look at them every day, that it would have a good influence on him 