| Description | Written from Camp Sebastopol.
No receipt of letter: looking forward to races given by the Light Division day after tomorrow, running a pony with a good chance of winning: report of new battery to be built where Fort Paul used to be: Russians firing from the north side: great quantity of wood from the town for buildin of stables, nuts, etc: days getting shorter, with nights very cold and long: order for subalterns to get companies after 6-7 months in the Crimea, so supposition of getting his with the next vacancy: hope of father recovering his strength and enjoying his trip to Paris with Adolphus.
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