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do violence to no man neither accuse

any falsly and be content with your wages

(Here is speaks of making his own life for the

sake of saveing the lives of two comrads who

he found a sleep on guard)  We sent him

a letter wishing him a happy Merry Christ

mas (Dec, 61).  He acknowledges it the happiest

one he ever spent and in turn wishes

us a Happy New Year and writes as follows

"So I had the opportunity of being on guard

when the New Year came in  I thought as I was

pacing my beat slowly on the beautiful night

Behold what has one short year brought forth

little did I think last New Years night where

I would be at the present  It would take

It would take quite a volumn to contain

the thoughts that pased through my mind

that night and I wondered where I should

be next New Years Eve"  It was on the night

of Dec 31st on Watch Night that he publicly

profesed his faith in Christianity each

Watch Night was his religious aniversary

And now where Oh where have they laid

his mortal remains  In my immaginations