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            round in that vicinity and shall if ever I live to get home you was the last time that I saw you you was one of that kind how is it now do you beleave in having a war and creating a nationl det of four or five hundred milions for the sake of the nigers ar you wiling to pay such a tax all of your life it is a going to be hard for a man that has got a small farm to worck hard and then to have to sell every thing he can spare to pay his tax but enough of this I hoap that the war will close soon the Armey of the south west is a doing a good thing at this time but Vixburg will be a hard place to take in my opion opinon / but they may get it and that and Port Hudson divides the confedricy Virgina is a hard place to fite in as evry body knows by this time but I thinck that I have writen enough give my regards to all send me some stamps and when I get paid I will send you the mo money write soone Direct

            to Zeb Zebulon Knight

            1^st me cav Genral Hospittal

                        Wind mill Point

                                                Va

 

                                    yours Zeb /

 

Afternon the 10^th

the weather is warm and pleasant to day the ground is quite dry thair is a movment a going on in this armey but what it is I do not know the troops ar a moving evry nite from Belle plaine I can hear the stemars a moving all nite the Papers do not say eney thing of it how is evry thing in Harison and vicinity how is your couson Roxana now and your couson Jenney Hicks is she maried yet and how is my peticular Friend Luzy and Franck Lowell Pin Hoock is a grate place I should thinck they would have to have a Provo marshal thair in times of war for for fear that thair would be treson talcked in the holey city I would lik to have my skirmishers thair and deploy and skirmish with some of the Ablisnist I want to talck with some of the inhabitance of the towns

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