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1865-06-14 Page 03

to cause Such feelings, but the time is not far distant when I will be with you. I then entend to hunt us a new home and bid Fort Madison a long farewell. Hope you will Succeed in Selling our House by fall, had thought that if your Mother does not need her money that you could dispose of the property to a better advantage by taking a mortgage on the house "in her favor" for the amount "due her" with Intrest payable "Semi annually" get the balance in Cash down to "pay Jim",
do not think I will have any trouble in gitting a good Situation when I get out, and at "nine hundred" dollars a year we can live nicely once more. It is now reported in Camp that we are going to St" Louis Mo.. I do not believe the report "but hope it is true, for then I can get home without any trouble, we are all very anxious to get out of the Service, feel that we have done all that we agreed to do and now Should be Sent Home. our dreams by night and our Conversation by day revolse around that central pivot. we have been told by Generals and by newsPapers that we were on our Journy home.

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to cause Such feelings, but the time is not far distant when I will be with you. I then entend to hunt us a new home and bid Fort Madison a long farewell. Hope you will Succeed in Selling our House by fall, had thought that if your Mother does not need her money that you could dispose of the property to a better advantage by taking a mortgage on the house "in her favor" for the amount "due her" with Intrest payable "Semi annually" get the balance in Cash down to "pay Jim", do not think I will have any trouble in gitting a good Situation when I get out, and at "nine hundred" dollars a year we can live nicely once more. It is now reported in Camp that we are going to St" Louis Mo.. I do not believe the report "but hope it is true, for then I can get home without any trouble, we are all very anxious to get out of the Service, feel that we have done all that we agreed to do and now Should be Sent Home. our dreams by night and our Conversation by day revolse around that central pivot. we have been told by Generals and by newsPapers that we were on our Journy home.