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This will be the last letter you will receive from me, while I am soldiering, at least I think so, for [err?] I have time to write again I will be on my homeward trip. Tell Mother I am in fine spirits and good health and would write her a letter separate form this but in anticipation of soon seeing her, I will defer writing. Even if I should write I've no news to communicate. Since leaving Selma I have been living fine and while in Mobile I enjoyed myself. I came to the conclusion to live the rest of my time while in the Army. At Mobile nearly every evening several of us would go to the city get ice cream and supper and every day in camp would have butter milk and eggs. Here we get watermelons, and have a negro who brings us eggs, chicken, fish biscuits, etc. outside of our regular meals. By this you can see I am not going to starve. The Negroes here will do anything for a Yankee. This is the driest Fourth I ever spent it sees as Sunday. Next one will be spent at Home. Well do I recollect where I was four years ago to day. We went out to [illegible] I am very thankful that my friends still remember me and they may rest assured that I ever hold them in my thoughts and desire very much to see them. Will Smith is well