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exersizeing its influence on your

actions  I do not mean by this that

you shall be dull and stupid if you

live up to the princeles you will be

lively you cannot help it or at least

I cannot do I oveheard our lieutenant to say

that he believed that I was the happiest

man in the regament and why is

it I will tell you  it is becaus I

have lived up to the three principals that

father requested me to & they were these

remember the duty you owe to your

heavenly father and to your earthly father

and to Uncle Sam, and you see that

in obeying my father I also obyes

officers while others of loose characters

think it one of the greatest [taskests?]

in the world to obey and consequently

they cannot be happy nor enjoy them

selves here  I should be sorry to get

a wild romantic and unsetteled disposition

on account of my being away from home

and in the army. and I want you to