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I received your letter to-day at eleven Oclock, and I immediately take this
opportunity to answer it. In my last letter, when I asked you to let me come
home, I did it calmly and deliberately, knowing well what I was doing; I was
sick at the time and I mentioned it in my letter. Since writing that letter I
have not been able to attend a single recitation, it is utterly impossible under
existing circumstances to study; I am unable to do it; my strength will not
permit it. You yourself must know, what a strain it must be upon a sick man, to
sit for three hours to get a lesson and then to Colege education as much as anybody, but when that
education cannot except by the loss of one's health, then I must confess, that
it is useless. There is one sentence in your letter I do not understand; it is
as follow "if you wish to join the army your defendend against gunboats. About two thousand men were taken prisoners
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