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entire family: but while I am
thanking you for your sympathy
& telling you of my love, you are
perhaps wishing that I would
comply with the request expressed
in the latter part of your letter.
I will not trouble you with the
many & conflicting rumours that
have reached our ears, but will
only give you what we think
the most probable of them all:
I fear, we will never know anything
certain in regard to our idol's
fall, for in his anxiety to drive
back the merciless foe, he had
ridden far ahead of the regiment
& the last that was seen of him
was when dashing in eager haste
towards the enemy's column:
He fell, firing almost the last