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be home in three months. I was very Patriotic doing all I could to help the party into power, carrying voters to the polls and in my feeble manner encouraging the laboring man to do his duty, and when I got to the Battlefield I found it was not the place for me Timid & nervous I had not the nerve to stand it, and if I am Timid & nervous and Cannot Stand the excitement Surly I think I am not to blame. Surely this is not the place for me with my failing health & strength and my confinement in jail with my confinement here unless I am soon released will ruin my health for life. I cannot sleep nightly thinking of my family- my wife