It nearly broke my heart that I could not go.

Oh, the rattle of the war drum and the bugle calls and the marching troops, it set me crazy, and me not able to take a hand in the scrap.
Mrs.Summerhays calls him Wm.

T.Worth, isn't it Wm.

S.Worth?
The copy I have read was loaned me by Captain Baird; he says it's a Christmas gift from General Carter, and I must return it.

My poor wife has read it with keen interest and says she: "William, I am going to have that book for my children," and she'll get it, yea, verily! she will.
Well, Colonel, I'm right glad to know that you are still on this side of the great divide, and I know that you and Mrs.S.will be glad to hear from an old "walk-a-heap" of the 8th.
I am working for a Cumberland newspaper--Lonaconing reporter--and I will send you a copy or two of the paper with this.