Davis is in good health and happy to be in Bolivar, since Bolivar has better quality water than Corinth. There is a band of Confederate guerilla fighters in the area, but they keep their distance from Davis' regiment. Davis updates his wife on friends and family from back home, and tells her that he found one of his cousins the other day in the 16th Illinois Volunteer Regiment. He received pay the other week and wants to send his wife twenty dollars, but it is not safe to send money in the mail.
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