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It1* piA€1SIITWfIIotl*nFrom the 24th Regitttnt.Can* 2i7Z Rift T*u. YouItov itacos, Li, inly 2, ‘64. jEditors Jo.rn^iL:^ We havt just received a bundle of papers from your ef-6ee, which wa were fflad to get, for wealways love to bear from home, and fowl that w# are not forgotten by our friend*Company F sendj their thanks to you for femrmLejlng them by sending the Journal so often. It does tbeir heart « good to read a paper that stands sp for the right* of the country and people.There is a roan up in your country who ■ g edits a paper called the Vincennes Sun B I think bjf name ia Green*. (I wonder “ if ha has not got red eyes and a flat cose, for he la one of Copperhead s nearest kin.) Wall, that same Greene has, for the last two or three month*, beea trying to introduce hia paper into the 24th regiment, for what purpose it would he Lard to tell, hot I suppose that be thinks he sees something, (but I can tell him that he bad better sot §tt the old 24th again.) 1 will venture to say there are not a half dozen men in the regiment that will read his paper, forthey detest him and all his vile crew.We have been expecting to go to Vicksburg for the last two weeks, for our regiment has been aligned to the Engineer Corps that Gen. Canby is now organizing st that place, for the purpose of repairing some railroad—what one we have not yet learned, but it is sup-Seed by officers here to be the one fromernphis to Little Rock. For this rta-7J3t*0 0 eVs10alicbaetlLnaoa our regiment is still performing the lt;«uasame old routine of gsrrisoo duty, with nothing to relieve the monotonyo‘ camp * r life but an occasional camp rumrr started by some of the boys for the parpose of creating a aeaaaUen; bat that is s**t- g ting to be -ueb an old thing that they r put generally fail to accomplish their ^Ohtfti ■ .4 ip i in il , i ▼ ’,mr± I LThe non-veterans of the 24tb will be ! |, din Larged on the 30th of this month. I yIt is supposed that w - will start from here so as to reach Indianapolis by that time, for we are to be mustered out of cthe service to the Slat*.The health of the regiment it wry good at this time Baton Rouge Lasproved a very healthy pisce to ea*ttp.fIbut the boys are all very anxieua to 1 leave—‘“Anything,' they say, “so a* to j i gel out of mass* Bank i departmnot' r The weather here is very hot and «n1- I , try—some days matt tinbearabls—hut i we throw onrielve* back in the shade, IiI Iiand think that there is a better day coining Li nap Wooo.
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Evansville Daily Journal
Evansville, Indiana, US
Thu, Jul 21, 1864
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