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If we had remained in camp here, I should have made application for leave of absence. But we move to the front to-morrow. You can understand what a Soldier's feeling is, I think. You must not let me wait for letters. I shall carry with me into this campaign something which I did not have in the Chickamauga campaign. Whether you will or not, you must henceforth, and that in the highest sense, be associated with me. You have left your mark on my forehead: my soul has been with your soul, and taken on of its fragrance. And if these things shall make, to me the days calmer, the nights cheerfuller, the air more balmy about me, giving me sometimes a pillow when otherwise my head would ache upon the ground, you should that God for this power of comforting. Now, summing up many things in a word, God bless you forever and ever; seeing that, in blessing you, He blesses also me. Richard Realf.