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Forwarded Due 3 [cancellation stamps]

Miss Rosie E True Rockland [struck] Hope [inserted] Maine

8th Maine Vols Beaufort - S. Carolina January 30th 1863

Dear Sister,

I have received your letters of 23d ultimo and 14th instant.

I suppose you have heard before now of the death of Oscar Fletcher. He died about three weeks ago -- I was absent on picket and had been ten days when he died -- His remains were sent North.

You ask me what I think of this war. I think that it might have been ended long ago, if a sufficient number of Northern