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Huntsville Ala Jan 23rd Dear Father Ed Luff, a member of our battery, who has had the good luck, through the influence of some friends to get a good soft thing in the shape of a Commission in the 12th Ills Cavalry, is going to Chicago to join the that regiment now stationed there and has kindly consented to be the bearer of letters to our friends at home. Notwithstanding I have not received a letter from home for a month and also that I wrote to mother last night I am going to send you a few