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My Dear Mother, We have just been informed that our 1st Lieut. Lea J. Robinson leaves for Chicago this afternoon at 2 o' clock and will take any and everything we wish to send home. I send you inclosed $40.00 which I promised to so the first safe opportunity in my last letter. I send you also a belt, mentioned in my last letter, which was taken from the dead body of a rebel officer on that famous Friday night (jan. 2nd). As this is the only trophy and it is a good one of the battler of Stones River, which I have. I hope it will be kept till I come home. When he returns which will be