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We are camped beside a field that has the largest corn in I ever saw there is some of it 20 feet high it is on the south side of a hill The people here appear very glad to see us most of them but there are some rebbles We have found several rebble letters newspapers and military papers, reports, rolls, etc and there is more deserters reported and advertised and more dis-satisfaction shows in the letters found than I had ever expected ther was. there is enough in our army but theirs beats us out all hollow We have not had any rations for several days. We have not had anything to eat for two days except a little fresh beef and a few ears of corn that we can find not too hard to rost and sometimes we can get a little fruit but it is very scarce in camp but not in the country out apiece and we get elder berrys we have nothing hardly to cook in. The citizens are about as bad off for some thing to eat as we are. The rebbles have used about all the fruit and corn that was near here. I would not begrudge a quarter for a cracker and piece of fat pork but I guess we will have it in a day or two when our train comes up. We have nothing at all to do and dont need much to eat If a man will not work neither should he eat.



	Louden Tenn Sept 5th 1863 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ We are camped beside a field that has the largest corn in I ever saw there is some of it 20 feet high it is on the south side of a hill The people here appear very glad to see us most of them but there are some rebbles We have found several rebble letters newspapers and military papers, reports, rolls, etc and there is more deserters reported and advertised and more dis-satisfaction shows in the letters found than I had ever expected ther was. there is enough in our army but theirs beats us out all hollow We have not had any rations for several days. We have not had anything to eat for two days except a little fresh beef and a few ears of corn that we can find not too hard to rost and sometimes we can get a little fruit but it is very scarce in camp but not in the country out apiece and we get elder berrys we have nothing hardly to cook in. The citizens are about as bad off for some thing to eat as we are. The rebbles have used about all the fruit and corn that was near here. I would not begrudge a quarter for a cracker and piece of fat pork but I guess we will have it in a day or two when our train comes up. We have nothing at all to do and dont need much to eat If a man will not work neither should he eat. ------------------------------------------------------------------------