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1865-05-29 Page 2

at the market by the wagon load for five cents per quart and a hat full of plums for 5 cents and some ripe apples for 10 cts per doz  and by the time they are gone there will be millions of bushels of peaches ripe and after them the figs and a lot of other kind of fruit will be ripe. So you see we are well supplied with fruit - we get plenty of soft bread and we manage to sell our extra coffee and sugar and buy green vegetables such as onions, radishes, salad cabbage. We live fine here, we get 50 cts per pound for coffee and 25 for sugar in silver. We make no distinction between silver and green backs. One is as good as the other and they are the same in value. There is none but our Brigade here. The second Brigade of our Division went up to Tuskeegee yesterday and I don't know where the 1st Brigade is. I guess it's gone home. I think we will get to come home sometime this fall

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at the market by the wagon load for five cents per quart and a hat full of plums for 5 cents and some ripe apples for 10 cts per doz and by the time they are gone there will be millions of bushels of peaches ripe and after them the figs and a lot of other kind of fruit will be ripe. So you see we are well supplied with fruit - we get plenty of soft bread and we manage to sell our extra coffee and sugar and buy green vegetables such as onions, radishes, salad cabbage. We live fine here, we get 50 cts per pound for coffee and 25 for sugar in silver. We make no distinction between silver and green backs. One is as good as the other and they are the same in value. There is none but our Brigade here. The second Brigade of our Division went up to Tuskeegee yesterday and I don't know where the 1st Brigade is. I guess it's gone home. I think we will get to come home sometime this fall