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March 1^st 1863
Camp Sills near Murfreesboro Tenn
"No 4" Head Quarters Q.M. Dept 75th Ills Vol
1^st Brigade 1^st Division
20^th Army Corps
Army of the Cumberland

Ever dear Lydia
Again I am permitted to write
you a few lines, and I have the pleasure of
acknowledging the receipt of your letter of the 19^th
written just after you had been to the Irish dance
- you did not enjoy it very well, did you? I
thought you would not, knowing your disposition
and feelings about that class of people, but I am
glad you went if it caused the evening to pass
away any more pleasant, and I want you to
go [to?] all places of amusement when you can, for
I know that you have a lonesome time of it

I am rather sorry that I have said so much
against your going to Dixon, for I realy want
you to stay just where you can enjoy yourself