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Woodburn Macoupin Co Ills Dec 29th 1865 Dear Son I do not know how long it it since I wrote to you I think near two weeks at any rate I have received two letters from you since I wrote one but you will not think it neglect when I tell you the reason. Oh Edgar we have just past through such a fiery ordeal we have just laid our poor dear Eugene beneath the cold and silent clods I told you in my last letter he had got badly burned his leg from the ankle to the knee was badly burned it seemed to be recovering and the burnt flesh had nearly all sloughf off ready to heal but the fever set in with the burn though so slight we did not think it anything serious until it