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in letter 13 Mar. Carroll Camp Talk (1983) 4: Life since you left me has been a blank—(would it had—and I had slept thro’ it!)—and I would blow my d---d brains out before I would live another four months like it! So, for Christ’s sake come home quickly. in letter 31 July Carroll Camp Talk (1983) 9: I am intrenched behind breastworks of logs—which are well ditched—and really formidable. I know of breastworks that I would prefer being before tho’. in letter 25 July Carroll Camp Talk (1983) 45: I had a queer dream of Col. Keogh the night before last, ‘twas that he would insist upon undressing in the room in which you were. I had to give him a ‘dressing’ to cure him of the fancy. in letter 10 July Carroll Camp Talk (1983) 32: I never felt more like damning anyone in my life that I did during the 1st night of our fight—of giving it to Mathey. He was in charge of the pack train—& instead of running around looking after his business, was gossiping away like an old lady over her tea. in letter 14 June Carroll Camp Talk (1983) 15: Of course the mail matter all got thoroughly soaked, but it was dried—and put up & sent off. So you may get your letter OK. in letter 12 June Carroll Camp Talk (1983) 13: My Frabbie Darling, Before we leave this point I will send you a few more scratches. The letter of this date went off this morning. letter 3 July in Carroll Camp Talk (1983) 81: M. hopes to strike him when crossing the Mo. river. Yes, in a hog’s valise he’ll do it! letter 11 Aug. in Carroll Camp Talk (1983) 85: Doane will manage affairs as well as they can be. DeR. would blox everything. in Carroll Camp Talk (1983) 109: ‘The sight of a picture [i.e. of a houri] in these hard times is almost enough to make me want to scrape it from ‘Bubbies to buns’ [Simes:DLSS]. letter11 Aug. in Carroll Camp Talk (1983) 86: Hale is now ‘chinning’ me—wanting to have me go and settle some matters for him with Merrill . letter 18 Nov. in Carroll Camp Talk (1983) 105: The ‘Tads’ of the Regt. have all been ‘codding’ Fuller on Annie—i.e., about getting burnt by her last winter. letter 25 Oct. in Carroll Camp Talk (1983) 96: I now have the dirty part of work to do: viz., marching the Regt. 500 and more miles to its Hdqrs.—thro’ sleet, snow, etc. letter 8 Dec. in Carroll Camp Talk (1983) 109: [B. is referring to a lithograph of a cigar sellers’s flier, featuring a young woman with legs crossed, which he has enclosed and adorned with an erect penis] The ‘black spot’ fold in crease of her drawers is slightly suggestive of something better—i.e. to eyes so famished as are mine. I might put in equipment complete but refrain. The task is too exciting. letter 21 Nov. in Carroll Camp Talk (1983) 107: The officers returned from the ‘Trader’s Hop’ perfectly pleased. Everything ‘gotten up—& went off’ nicely. letter 3 July in Carroll Camp Talk (1983) 80: I don’t think you are a 1st Class manager—or you would have ‘hiked’ one of those niggers out of the way long ago. letter 9 Dec. in Carroll Camp Talk (1983) 114: Can’t get any mink skin here—not any other kind of skin. letter 30 June in Carroll Camp Talk (1983) 76: It’s too bad that the grand ‘P.P.’ Mathey isn’t out here getting some of the scouting business. [...] He isn’t at all missed or mourned for tho’, but all knowing his sneaking way would like to see him beaten. letter 8 Dec. in Carroll Camp Talk (1983) 112: Should the vignette cause you any peculiar sensation, a cure all can be found when Johnny comes marching home. A rude representation of the rod of correction can be found in the background. letter 9 Dec. in Carroll Camp Talk (1983) 114: Can’t get any mink skin here—not any other kind of skin. letter 4 July in Carroll Camp Talk (1983) 82: Will carry this [letter] open with me that I may sling anything new in that I learn. letter 30 June in Carroll Camp Talk (1983) 76: The d---d sneak knew when he went on leave that he wouldn’t get back in time! He isn’t at all missed or mourned for tho’, but all knowing his sneaking way would like to see him beaten. letter 18 Nov. in Carroll Camp Talk (1983) 105: The ‘Tads’ of the Regt. have all been ‘codding’ Fuller on Annie—i.e., about getting burnt by her last winter. letter 9 June in Carroll Camp Talk (1983) 67: French was quite ill, as usual after drunks—and hasn’t gotten off his ‘toot’ as yet. letter 16 Nov. in Carroll Camp Talk (1983) 101: I got over my biliousness—and into a 1st class cold from having to skip out of the tent at night. ‘Dakota Trot’. letter 3 May in Carroll Camp Talk (1983) 128: This trip was going to cost him $1000. Yes, in a P.A. letter 3 May in Carroll Camp Talk (1983) 128: There are no such things as nickels out here. ‘A bit,’ which is either 10 cts. or 15 cts., just you are posted. Viz. A boot-black will charge you ‘a bit’ for a shine, give him 25 cts. and he hands you back a dime, never 15 cts., but give him a dime, & he thinks you either U.P. or a mean fellow. letter 3 May in Carroll Camp Talk (1983) 128: ‘Little J. chews tobacco.’ He’s a gauzy man to me. letter 5 May in Carroll Camp Talk (1983) 130: Theo. has to work like a Trojan to keep the outfit up, but they seem in pretty good cheer. Camp Talk Comments 97: Again, poor ‘Frabbie Darling’ catches the dickens for mismanagement of their financial affairs . Camp Talk Intro. xxi: [I]f either of the two husbands ever toppled briefly off the marital wagon, it evidently had no lasting effect on their devotion to their wives or vice versa.