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L. M. 

Camp of 88th Regt. Ill. Vol. Inf., Loudon, Tenn. March 8th 1864, My dear Friend: Your note - why do you write such brief notes? - enclosed in your Sister's last, reached me this morning. I am going to write to her tomorrow, but before I go to bed to-night I want to say God bless you. You will be glad to learn from my last letter to your Sister, that my health is still improving, and that I am in a fair way of growing healthy and strong again. This pleasant spring weather acts like a tonic, and under its bracing influence I begin to regain something of the elasticity of life and spirits which during my sickness in winter I sometimes feared would never come back to me. Yes, to be sure we are "Kind to each other" in sickness. Why not? Did you think that because in this grim battle with gigantic wrong we lose inevitably something of the mellow grace of life, and break sometimes through the thin veneerings