Camp Dennison Feb [1]

My Dear Wife
I now take this opportunity to write
you a few lines to let you know that
I am well and hope these few lines
will find you the same there little
or no news to tell you about our camp
Capt Cryer had a little fuss in his
company yester day they went to
Millford A little Town that is about
a mile from here for the porpose of
attending church but insted of that
got drunk and come home and got
into a fight amongst themselves so
there officers put them in the gard
House and there was one of capt
Bartletts corprols d[???]
something that he got put in the
gard House for and today he was
ordered to the ranks it was at
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Dress Parade so you see it was [done?] [2]
before all the companies I was on
Brigade gard last night we had
four Prisoners in the gard House to
gard one of them has been in about
six weeks he was put in for striking
a Colonel of one of the rigements
that is here in camp I was mista
king about that corpral being put
in the gard house he was not put
in the gard House but reduced to
the ranks Feb 4 Well I suppose we
are disbanded and will be at
home or part of the company will
in the corse of a month all I know
about it is thisb the captains of all
the companies told there men that
the Assistant Agt General fetched
a disspatch to our colonel & the Colonal
was not at home & he told the
major that we were probaly disbanded
so the captains told the men of it and
wanted them to think of it and
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make up there minds how
many of them wanted to go as
Infantry I dont know whether
I shall come home or not now if
we are disbanded I may go to work
some place about here but dont know
yet what I shall do
Charles Jinkins has been worse
since I wrote to you there is ten
chances for him to die where there
is one for him to get well Horace
Drew & Nathen Basset are taking
care of him
Jim & I have got at work I went
down to Cincinnati to get Leather
but did not have much of a
chance to see the place I started from
here at half past twelve PM and
got back at four O clock
nothing more at
present yours as ever
T M Covert
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Sic O clock Wednesday Morning Feb 5
Charles Jinkins is dead he died
at four O clock this morning
The capt is a going to send his body
home his death casts a gloom over
all the rigement he is the first man
that has died in the rigement but if
we were kept here till next May
there would be plenty more
that would die Charles has had
the best of care we have one of the
best Doctors that can be found and
some of the best nurses

T M Covert