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Chicago Board of Trade Battery On front of Atlanta Ga Aug 5th 1864

My Dear Brother,

You cannot imagine how pleased I was when about a week ago I saw your name among the list of those admitted to the High School. You are so young that you cannot rightly appreciate the position you have attained, but if you will listen to, and profit by, the advice which Father and Mother so often gave me and which they will willingly repeat to you your four years in that institution will slip rapidly and pleasantly by and in after years when you have reached manhood, in looking back you will never regret the time spent in the High School. But if you let their advice pass almost