Shoes cost 6 to 7 dollars. Discuss sending money home with friends, also about sending money to me. Last pay many months ago. Take care of friends when sick in hospital. Tall all the girls to write, Yankee girls not as pretty as the ones back home.
Paper is very scarce.
Discuss number killed in past battle. Dead on field, black as a Negro, tongue swelled out of their heads. Virginia was like home, hated to leave. Drive oppressors from our soil. Will not disgrace myself nor my relations with my conduct.