Nov 25th good morning Dearest Mary 
I thought I would write a few more lines this morning.  Just one month ago to day we started for Arkansas.  That was a cold snowy day & it looks this morning like it might snow to day.  will you please to keep a memorandum of the weather, I do not mean every day, but sudden changes & cold days &C & send it to me each time you write, it will be a satisfaction to me & others to know the state of the weather.  We sent Butler out to the country yesterday.  R. Stockdale went out to take care of him In the afternoon Gen Davidson issued an an order to have all the sick brought back into camp.  We think it cruel & tyrannical.  It seems that these Missouri Officers have a dislike to sow troops a kind of jealousy.  Billy & B Risin are getting breakfast. & Marion is cutting a Fox & goose board or a bushel board or something of the kind - he appears to be verry much in[illegible] over such games, it collects so many loafers in our tent that it is a verry great bore to me.  I would rather spend my time reding newspapers, particularly if I liked to argue as well as he does he has got his marks cut & is teaching some [illegible] hand out side of the tent.  He is explaning it out to him as carefully as you would an urchin - his ABC's.  We have dried beef, coffey, crackers & some buiscuit, I would rather eat one of the buiscuits than have one of throwed at me. well I must quit & try some of them, it is [illegible]
