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Nashville
Tennessee
Sunday April 2d 1865
Dear Lide
Yours written last Sunday
reached me to day, and I hasten to answer
it. And first let me say that I am sorry to
hear your eyes are no better; tell me when you
write again what the Doctor says about them.
I am sorry we dont get paid, so you could rest
them. and I am in hopes we shall this week.
Heaven knows that it is time: when I do you
can pay the Doctor if you wish, but why did
you knot have Doc, Drew? you never wrote me
the reason. I have been to a Niger Baptisim
this fore noon. there was fifteen baptised by
a white minister assisted by another, they
marched in procesion from thier Chapple
to the river, singing as they marched, but
making a very poor apearence, in a Millitary
point of view, as it apeared impossible for them
to keep closed up, and they stragled like a
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