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Camp Shaeffer, Murfreesboro, Tenn, April 10, 1863. Cousin Elbridge: You will see from the date of this that I am once more ready to meet the foe, and help sustain our free institution and common liberties. I received your letter of the 15th ult. on the 27th, but did not answer it immediately as I expected to come here before this. We were paid our dues from the [illegible] from enlistment up to March 1st, on the 7th inst and yesterday I came here. A few days before I left [of?] the Convalescent Camps in the