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Woodburn Nov 20th 1865 Dear Son as tomorrow is mail day again I will try and send a few lines by it not that I have much that is new or important to write but it helps to keep the [illegible] between you and us and thereby renders your absence more bearable besides it may help in a small degree to while away the tedious hours of your at present monotonous existance camp lift must be very dull when there nothing to do but drill and guard duty we are having most lovely weather here for the time of year Pa and Fanny have been to Jerseyville since I wrote before the man we sold the place to was lying at the point of death so there is little prospect of our getting anything