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yet I wish you to make your own future as you would like to have it as near as you can *let no thought of home neglect by bias you in the least far rest assured if any neglect is apparent it was far from being intended *(and I will help you all I can) I have always had a goodeal of solicitude respecting your future happiness and wellfare and if I have been instrumental in defeating you in any way it was my inability to do what I most desired now when you read this you will say that you never intimated anything of the kind I know you never did but I am only giving you my views of the subject news has reached here that the 122nd has been in a heavy battle and four hundred of them killed but who I have not heard or to the Reliability of the statement cannot testify the report says they killed 3000 thousand