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Camp of 88th Ill. Vol. Inf., Loudon, Tenn. Feb. 19, 1864, Dear friend, Your letter of the 31st ult. and that of the 3rd inst. arrived so nearly at the same time that - until greater leisure shall enable me to thank you fitly for your warm sympathy so earnestly expressed - I must content myself with what few yet sincere words of reciprocal interest and esteem I can just now snatch a moment from the performance of multiform duties today. Relative to my quite discursive and I fear somewhat incoherent talk about faces, I followed rather the drift of my own thinking than the suggestions of your letter, and so did not so much misapprehend you as commit the blunder of irrelevancy. I know what you mean, dear friend; I have seen many faces such as those which you so aptly describe; reverent, being [illegible]; faces like the Lord's prayer, like a conquering battle song, like a