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You speak of being glad when I am discharged

Daph I expect to have to wade through blood

before I am discharged  I think that Gen Pope

will clean the rebels out of the Shenandoa valley and

then join McCllelan at Richmond if he does there

will be hard fghting to be done it may be my

lot to fall but my life is no better than any one

elses  You say Charlie wishes I was there to go to

work pleas ask him what he pays green hands per

month and let me know in your next letter

You speak of my specimens  I have sent them home

the n revolutionary buttons I either sent home

or lost them and I do not know which  I will

send you a piece of the stone that markes the

spot where Lord Cornwallice surrendered his sword

to Washington if I can get hold of any confedrate

script I will send some to Charlie some of the

men here have some of it you ask if Father keep

the money that I sent home or let me have it

a gain that is a strange question or did you take

me to be a fool  I will answer this question by

telling you what he wrote me in his last letter concerning

the money. these are his words  What shall I do with

the money that you sent home  if I put it in the

bank you will get six per sent int and can get the money

whenever you call for it  if I let the neighbors have it

you will seven percent but are not shure you can get it

when you call for it  you speak of our baby brother if he is as

sweet a boy as his little sister is a girl  I an hartily glad they

have him for there is no member in the family that I think

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any more of

than I do her

she is the

sweetest little girl I ever saw with out an exception You want

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to know who the rest of my corrospondents is but

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I am a fraid you will not find out unless you can keep a secret