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Washington DC Dec 4, 1867 Dear General

            Yours received last evening of the sundry blessings and punishments fro which you give thanks I respond a hearty Amen: and I will close the exercises by pronouncing bedediction,-bene. for us male [underline] for the damned old scoundrel at the "other end of the Avenue."    May this dispenser of brimstone a blue blazes, shower down upon him and all "conservatives" an Egyptian shower of plagues and terrors, and finally administer to them an abundant entrance into Hell."  Selah.  I say this will all due respect to him as my superior (?) officer!
           There is a big fight between the friends of Grant and Chase for