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have to go to his company as a Private. I do not know how they will work it, but I presume it will be all right as the other one is not liked by eather of the Doctors. Where as they think a good deal of me. They had several times threatened to reduce the other one to the ranks. A Hospt. Steward recives 3 dollars a month, clothing and grub. That is much better than 13 a month, but you very well know I did not enlist for money. I will quote you a few lines which Robie wrote to me. He comences, And now, Jim at your request I am going to mentions a subject hitherto regarded as Sacred and locked up in the deep recesses of my own heart; the estrangement between your pet sister and myself. I have never explained the cause before to any one, and I do so to you because you know well enough to understand the motives that (a word I can not make out) me. After Annie and I had exchanged vows in order that she might not doubt my motives I told her that it was herself, [previous two words underlined] and not what she might inherit that I wanted. In proof of which I told her that if ever she became my wife she must look to me for a fortune and not to her father that I could not would not marry anyone that was