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? near one's ears as at Shiloh. Since I wrote last we have moved our quarters from Fort Kearney and are now stationed at this place, which is ninety miles west of Kearney. and we are so far from anywhere that we have not yet heard the particulars of the Richmond affair, but I am of the opinion that the war is nearly over, certainly hope so. I send you a photo that I had taken last winter ie. the negative but at the time I left Kearney, the artist had no paper for printing the pictures, so I had a daguerotipe taken which I sent last month. I recd these since. They are not very very well taken; couldn't expect much considering the original. We have had quite a snow storm here to day, almost the first we have experienced here this winter, though there is wind enough to make