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                   Washington Feb 3d 1862

Dear Brother

                  I received your

letter in due time and I must

say that I have not received

a letter that was so interesting

to me as yours was some folks have

a mistaken idea about what kind

of letter soldiers want writen to them

such generaly tell us of our privations

and hard ships we will have to endure

and the dangers we will encounter

they think we have not found them

yet but mind you soldiers do not

want such letters.   they want to know

what is going on in the domestic

cirkels and in the barn yard and

wheather sister Lizzie grows or not

and who keeps school and who goes

home with Sovia from spelling school

and wheather they have good meeting