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"pay-roll" a day or two ago, and the regiments at the front have already been paid up to Jan. 1, You will therefore not need to send any more money. as we shall probably be paid in a few days, I have received Aunt Mary's letters and wrote to her on the 10th inst. I wrote to you on the 6th inst. sending some seeds of the "prickly-pear," a species of locust with a [crossed out] broad [end crossed out], round, flat leaf or stem. I have not yet got an answer from Aunt A. sometimes letters go "front" before coming here; your last one did. There is skirmishing most every day on every side of us as you can see by the extracts from a Nashville paper, which I enclose. Papers seldom come