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thee, I shall not feel bad if the is not
Capt. unless it is a disappointment
to thee, there is so much more care &
responsibility. I want to hear all about
everything, please write all particulars.
How glad I should be to be there Sunday,
we have done nothing here excepting get
regulated and organize. I study Sallust
Astronomy, Physical Geography, and Rhetoric
and shall go into the Geometry Class when
it is at the 8th book, and finish that. I
have no roommate until Nancie comes,
which I hope will not be long first. My room
is smaller but pleasanter than last
term and it begins to seem like home, the
school bids fair to be as large as usual, which
is very strange considering the hard times
I think. I am anxious to hear from the
People's, - how that opens. How I wish we could
have visited more together when I was at
home. My vacation seemed to be very
much taken up. Have been sorry I did not
go home with the [?] First day before thee

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enlisted but, then it did not seem
for the best. I think I should do many
things different to [live?] over a year
or so but I might not do better or wiser.
I hope to hear from thee very soon. I think
of thee very, very often. I hope no evil
may befal thee. It seems dreadful to
think of this war, when will the end
come? We women have nothing to do but
patiently wait the fate of our friends, who
are dearer than life to us. I wish I could
do something to help thee, thy situation
is hard, surrounded by many tempta-
tions civil life knows nothing about.
I hope the may pass through the fiery
furnace unharmed. God preserve thee
on the battle-field and bring the safely
home to us again.

"A woman's hearth is her country, and
A desolate home is a desolate land

And thee is all the world to me."

How do Charley and Levi get along. Poor
Sophie, I pity her, how sad she looked.