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The largest of these is 120 feet across, from the extreme ends of the branches. The limbs branch out low and the outer ends nearly touch the ground The branches from all trees here are hung with Spanish Moss, which makes as perfect a shade from the Sun as you could wish for. And the tops are just as round as the top of our old Elm tree in N. H. Lt. Howards wife has gone home. She disapeared as she came, without any one knowing anything about it, not eaven her brother. That Howard family take the strangest [illegible] of any one I ever saw, but that is none of my buisness. Tell Fanny Burgess that I wrote to her just before leaving Vicksburg With love to all I remain your loveing Brother Carlie