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Revision as of 17:02, 7 January 2013
Washington Feb 3rd 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 wanto 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 [Lovia?] from spelling school
and wheather they have good meeting
or not and all the rest of the every
day news. A little good advise does
come amiss to a boy in a strange land
I will try and write you as good a letter
as you did. The other night when the
brigade officer was making the rounds
it was very dark and just as one of
