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Richmond Thursday 25 June 1863
I wrote you by Tuesday's mail my beloved wife,
that is I wrote on Monday and hope that you have re-
-ceived my letter - or rather the letter was directed to
Annie- there was in the enveolpe a letter to her and
one to Mary & one to you. On Tuesday I received your
letter of the 19th informing me of the return of Mr. Wilmer
and the arrival of Miss Lizzie - Present my kindest
regards to both. I did not understand from your
letter whether Mr. W. saw his brother or not. I was
extremely sorry to hear of his indisposition.
I wrote to you my dear wife, in the letter just
mentioned , that I had changed my situation and
accepted a quarter master's place. It is an ap-
-pointment under a recent act of Congress
assigning the superintendence of the tax in kind ["tax in kind" underlined]
to the quarter master's department and establishing
a quarter master for each Congressional district.
I have been assigned as I told you, at my request,
to the Pittsylvania District and shall probably
fix my post at Danville. I may not and
probably shall not be able to leave here until
the end if next week, for I find that there is
much information to the gathered beforehand as to
the duties, seeing that it is a new business. I shall
inform you however beforehand when I shall come
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up. There will be time for me to receive a letter from you
if you will write immediately that you receive this.
You can tell me if you want any thing especially
from here and I can bring it with me. I shall
come straight to the Court House and go to Danville
afterwards. I believe I might have obtained
a higher position- that is, one that would give me a
rather higher salary, but the advantage of being with
you & seeing you and all of the beloved ones with you
frequently, overbalanced that consideration. In a
pecuniary point of view however the office of quarter
master is inferior to the one which I held. In the
first place it gives me a rank from which there
is a possibility of being promoted in regular gra-
-dation- but even as Captain, the pay is con-
-siderably beyond what I was receiving and then
I shall have the privilege of buying from the
commissary many articles of household consump-
-tion at govt. prices- sugar, bacon, flour, salt &c.
& this not only for myself but for my family. [underlined]
I shall however think of your request about sugar
& buy some [underlined] ; altho' not perhaps so much as you mentioned.
I wish to be especially presented to Miss Lizzie Wilmer-also best love
to dear Annie & Mary and to Georgy & Breck and kisses for
my little darling. I must bid you goodbye for the
moment. [underlined] Yr. R.S.
Mrs. Saunders. It is raining & has been raining all day-remember me to sevts