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{probably Henry Misemer to Martha Bogart Misemer; the rest of this letter is missing.}

is putting the Rebs though in Va. and Sherman {95}is putting them through below Dalton
if they both keep on I dont see any thing to hinder peace from coming this fall, but dont
let this beauey {buoy} you up too much for I am no prophet and may be far from it.
Fatten the old sow and buy red wheat, sow the meadow in timothy seeds if you can get
them- It will take six thousand pounds of hay to feed your horses 9 months and your
cows can live on shucks. You can pasture the horses 3 months if you have your fodder
pulled it will not take so much bay. I cant tell you when my time is out. Some say we
will be mustered out three years from the time Pickens {86} got his commission to make up
a regiment which time expires next Aug a year. And some say three years from the time
we was sworn into the service. According to this my time is out the 26th of April 1866.
Others say we have to serve three years from the time we are mustered in as regiment
and we have never been mustered in as a regiment yet. We havent got men enough for
a regiment and I dont think we will ever get enough. They, men, die as fast as we recruit.
We have 815 men and it is said it takes 1000 to make a regiment. Knit me two pair of
socks and send my cotten ones to me and I can do tell spring. There is nothing else you
can do for me that I know of unless you knit me a pair of gloves and I dont want them
tell fall.

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