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Home Farm Kankakee Co Ill, May 25th 1862 My dear good wife I thought of you many times yesterday which was the anniversary of our marriage & I would have been oh so glad to have been with you, I would be glad to write you a long letter & tell you how much I appreciate you my wife & the mother of our dear children, but I am very tired & must content myself by simply giving you a history of myself since I last saw you, & enquiring about your own health & happiness & the health of the dear boys whom God has given us as a seal of our union, in the first place how is your health? Does your lung trouble you as it did? Have you used mustard on it? & have you taken those ague pills? Are you troubled at all with the Ague? Write me all about yourself the boys & your good sister Mary, I am glad she is coming our here with you for it will be so much more pleasant for us all - The day I left home I got so tired that I was obliged to stop at Mrs Bates who lives in that large white