I have but little time to write today as I am to make out the muster rolls of the Company which is my business every two months. I am very well but have trouble with my liver every few days. I am in hopes that I will get over it after a while. We were paid six months' pay yesterday, that is, we were paid up to March 1st. I have sent to the Bank of Salem for you $82.50, which you can draw at any time and I have $42.30, so I have plenty now. You must not be disappointed if you do not get my letters regularly as we expect to march soon,- we are expecting orders every day. We are getting ready for something, we do not know what. Besides being paid yesterday there was issued to each man eight days' rations of hard tack, sugar and coffee and sixty rounds of ammunition which means a movement of the army. We have D@ had one ration issued again which keeps the eight days' rations good which would appear we were to have an eight days' tramp. I must attend to my work and close with love to you and Ella.
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