Pvt. David Houston

My name is David Pettigrew Houston, I am a God fering man and I hav had a bunch of difrent jobs, Oh I wuld sae I hav dun about evrything yu can thank uf inkludin werkin at a grist mil a saw mil, at a tanery and I hav a smal farm. When the war brok owt, I jined up reel fast, becas I did not want wan of thos petictotes sum uf the fellers wer gitten for not jining up quik enuff. Wel maw sade thet, army lif wuld be ful of siners, and she wus shur rite about thet. I nevr herd sech cusin and carousin and gamblin in all my lif. Sum uf thes men wuld stel ther on maws las dime. I nevr herd of sech thins as cokroch racin, and a card plain and sum gam cald chuk-o-luk. Alut uf the fellers tride tu get me to do thes evil, vilonus thins with them, but nede nut to wory I staed and red the good book and vistted th Chaplin. I am her fur a caus, not to bring sham and evil. I am her to bring our indepentents not hav a gud tim with evil.

God help our Confedurat cause.