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Smith T. has also

gone to war, he goes

I believe as Hospital Steward

in the 91st Regt of which

Doc [Sikoy?] is Surgeon Ed

is now running the drug

stote. Dick you have no

idea how I suffer with

the blues, since so many

and in fact nearly all of

my young friends and

associates have gone in the

war And were it not for

the fact that there, are a

good many young Ladies in

town to whom I can resort

as a means of dispelling them

I think I shoujld soon drop

and languish from the very

blues, There is going to be given

a grand soldiers festival

a few miles the other side the

river today, which I think