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at the same time was ordered to report
at Hoboken on the 12th so they are
being sent over very quickly now —

I know he will be a splendid
Chaplain — He has always been so good
to the sick, the suffering and the needy.

He was thought very highly of by all
the people in the church and out
of it. He was presented with several
purses of money, one containing fifty dollars
one forty five and another containing six
hundred dollars besides numerous other
gifts —

Do forgive the rotted appearance
of this epistle. If I had time I'd write
it over again — But such are the
exigencies of war — with flies — or when with