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the 15th of March 1863 and $200.00 on the 15th of October 1863 with Six percent interest on the defered payments.  Secured by Mortgage on the property, and to have the titles made out in your name and if he Succeeds in making the trade, the Mortgage and Notes will be Sent to you to Sign, and if they come attend to it with dispatch for I am overly anctious to get the property.  If he does not make the trade he will deposit the money in the Bank of the State at Richmond in your name and Send the Certificate to you and just here I will make a remark on a Subject which I hardly ever mention and that is if I should happen to loose my life by any cause before I can pay it I want the money paid to the boys of whom I have borrowed it here in the Company at the earliest oportunity.  I have more than enough due me by the goverment now to pay it all, and have promised to repay it at the next two pay days and can easily do it but will not have much if any to Send to you unless you become needy and if so all you will have to do is to let me know and I will send it to you. 
You wanted to know if we ware going into winter quarters I think not for we are moveing Southward all the time and I think that before the 1st of January we will be Somewhere below Nashville at least I hope So for I want to be doing Something and not be laying around Camp, but go right into the enemys homes and put the thing through and wind it up, and I am convinced it cannot be done by us laying away back here and letting them alone in their own part of the country with their Niggers to raise and take care of evrything they need to live on while they themselves are in the Army fighting against us.  They call their Niggers property and want evrybody els to call them such, therefore I am willing to humor them

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the 15th of March 1863 and $200.00 on the 15th of October 1863 with Six percent interest on the defered payments. Secured by Mortgage on the property, and to have the titles made out in your name and if he Succeeds in making the trade, the Mortgage and Notes will be Sent to you to Sign, and if they come attend to it with dispatch for I am overly anctious to get the property. If he does not make the trade he will deposit the money in the Bank of the State at Richmond in your name and Send the Certificate to you and just here I will make a remark on a Subject which I hardly ever mention and that is if I should happen to loose my life by any cause before I can pay it I want the money paid to the boys of whom I have borrowed it here in the Company at the earliest oportunity. I have more than enough due me by the goverment now to pay it all, and have promised to repay it at the next two pay days and can easily do it but will not have much if any to Send to you unless you become needy and if so all you will have to do is to let me know and I will send it to you. You wanted to know if we ware going into winter quarters I think not for we are moveing Southward all the time and I think that before the 1st of January we will be Somewhere below Nashville at least I hope So for I want to be doing Something and not be laying around Camp, but go right into the enemys homes and put the thing through and wind it up, and I am convinced it cannot be done by us laying away back here and letting them alone in their own part of the country with their Niggers to raise and take care of evrything they need to live on while they themselves are in the Army fighting against us. They call their Niggers property and want evrybody els to call them such, therefore I am willing to humor them