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Dear Brother, I filled one sheet and now I will try to fill another with secular matters I hope you will not fail to have your Photograph taken for me, we are intending to have ours all taken to send to Sarah and Carrie you can see them there if you go home on a furlough. I suppose it would not be convenient for you to have any with you, if it was you may have mine, I suppose you have enlisted for nine months. If you could only be where some of us could send some nice thing every day it would be somewhat pleasanter. Illinois has done nobly all through the war so far, I saw a statement one day that rebels declared they would rather meet any other one on the field than Illinois' boys