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Vienna Virginia Dec 3^rd

Friends at Home

I take this
earley [early] opportunity of letting you
know I am here in safety I arrived
here yesterday having reached
Washington earley [early] in the morning
but missing the train coming to
this place and taking the wrong
one I had to walk ten miles which
was anything but pleasant But here
I am again in uncle Sams [Sam's] service
once more The Boys were all glad
to welcome me back and I was
farely carried off bodily by their
enthusiasm in imitation of hotell [hotel]
runners, one grasped my carpet
sack whilst I was nearly torn
into four quarters by runners
for various houses of high sound
cognomens as Astor House St Nicholas
Rusk Hous [House] &c [etc.]