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vicksburg miss Dec the 12th Kind wife I take this opportunity to write you a few lines in answer to your Kind letter wich I just received I was glad to hear that you was all well and hope that these few lines will find you all as well as they leave me I sent you ten dollars at one time and fourteen at another time with in the last Six weeks I think you have got a part or all of it by this time you wanted to know [where?] cicero was he is out St Louis me at the hospital he had the Small pox I dont know how he is