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I sent. I am sorry to say I have not received the letters. I have not received a letter from him since leaving Vicksburg allthough I have wrote to him. I have not got an answer to the letter I wrote him when I sent the likeness. I am sorry Tom P. has no time to write to absent friends. Some day he may wish me to write to him. Then he will come up missing. Just tell him so for me. I also wish I could be at home to hear you play on that piano and sing. I gess by this time you can play very well can you not? On my Birthday I often thought of the dear ones at home and were wondering if they were thinking of me. I spent the day in my usual duties tending on the sick and eating. At that time I was acting Hospital Steward and have been ever since. I expect to get the appointment soon, as Hospital Steward. The old one (that is the Steward) has been detailed to Corps Head Quarters. Doct. Turner was telling me to day that he will get me the appointment. So as if the other fellow should be returned back to the regt. he would