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Had been so the men is now going some on furlough three for the first fifty and two for every additional 25_ which sends eight at a time_ but it is like going to the mill they have to take it as their turn comes_ and there is all of fifty a head of me which will probably throw me off until the middle or latter part of summer_ There is no foundation for the summer that this company has been ordered to Vicksburg_ the Columbus Artillery left for that place last Tuesday_ and it is said that one more company will have to go_ there is five artillery companies around Savannah_ if such is the case it will be one of the five_ it may be ours or it may not_ if we should be ordered off I will write to you immedialety_ I am very well_ your in love

H. F. Scabror

Hiran will leave a package for you at Addisons

P.S. Tell Mann to make a hat out of Polimetto and send it to me if you have any chance If not keep it until I come home I want it the same size of that old hat of mine that I left at home bound at the top wit red leather_ Brim the same width crown same height

Yours truly

H.F.S.