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Arabine not to work to hard in the mill  She wrote
to me that she was to work in the new mill but
did not write where she landed  you wrote to me not
wory about home  I cannot help it when we lay down
without half supper enough I cannot help thinking of
you at home I wish you could look in upon us about
twenty four hours so you could judge for your self
but enough of that at present  I went down to the [hospital?]
last night to get some medicine for Capt Emerson  the city 
was over run with soldiers coming from all directions north
it is estemted that there is 50,000 troops within the
vicinity of Washington that can be raised in two hours
I have got sick and tired of the sound of war but must
stand a while longer  I hope if I live to get home I shall never here
the sound of war again while I live  it is groing late I
draw my letter to a close  you must write me as often as
you can for it is a great treat to sit down and read a
letter from you I assure you  you wrote me that Arabine
was going to write Sunday  tell her to be sure to
write me without fail and write all the news she can
find to write  tell Ellura and Laura a letter from
them  would be received with great pleasure  tell the
children to be good  tell Charly there is a little negro
boy a little bigger than he is out in the camp yard
a dancing  I wish he could see him a few minits
he would laugh I know he would  ask him if
he wants me to bring him home a little negro boy