Dear Mary,-

Still in Camp as you can see, with no change. The same one day's ration is issued every day and the eight days' rations are kept in reserve. We are doing the same duty, camp, picket, and the drills and parades. We are kept doing something all of the time and sometimes I think it is only to keep our minds occupied and to give us plenty of exercise so we will not get too much flesh and be thinking too much of home, and get discontented here.