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the box to me 2d Mass Regt. M. Vol

Harpers Ferry by Eather Edxpress you

think best Hilton will advise you best

about that. Be sure however and take a

receipt for it. I thought we should move

soon but we may stop here some time

and purhaps all winter, but at all

events I shall get it as 'twill be forward

ed to the Redgt. However send as soon

as possible, and I will send you some

money as soon as we get it. there is three

months pay due now, and they are making

out the rolls for the third time since we

came out. I am sorry to learn that your

side is so bad again, and hope twill soon

be better, What in the name of comon

scence do people expect to doe if things

come up at the rate they are going now.

I see by the papers that old Abe thinks

of calling out 300,000 more troops. I hope

to God he'll call for 6, and let us all

lay round doing nothing except looking

at his homely Phize ocaseinably, better