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all right for the Pioneer Corps. We are below Vicksburg and some 9 miles above Carthage, expect every day to move down to Carthage. I am very thankful to you for sending me some of your hair and I prize it very highly and hope before long I may have the pleasure of seeing you. I have some scales off one an allegator gar, which I picked up down by a small brook, and thinking they would be a couriosity to you & the sisters as well as a relic. I will send some to you & Sister Marian & Sister Lee. You can have the pleasure of giving them to the galls, they are got away down in La. on Homes Plantation and I think very much of them, and hope you will retain them for a relic. I have no news to communicate to you so I will have to close. I have no stamps to put on this letter, so you will have to pay for it. My love to all write soon and oblige your Son, James Rowe