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we manage a little so I can see nothing to hinder us from laying up money a little this winter the children have started to school Mary and Annie Fannie and John will start after a little we are about getting our Sorgham worked up now potatoes dug and so on I have not seen any of the jersey Co folks since you were [nor?] heard anything from there [only?] a rich old man by the name of Elliot Shot himself with his rifle for fear of being reduced to Starvation he lived near Fidelity you say it seems lonesome since you returned to the regiment I suspected it would I believe I want the time to come for you to come home worse if possible than I did before there is a fine opening in Woodburn