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When I come back from the war mother can sit in the back parlor or front one if she wishes and just let me do the washing, cooking, and meals and make Sarah's and your clothes. (wont that be a wonder) Since the talk about the Southern Confederacy wanting to make compromise was starting you would laugh to hear I am one of the boys in our battery talking and discussing what they would do when they go home just as though they were about taking the cars for Chicago. Isaac I saw something of yesterday would have astonished you, it did me. The 2nd [illegible] of wade Right passed by our quarters and right among the drummers beating as hard as any of them was your old acquaintance Willie Brass. He secured [money?]