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husband returns he will be able to make your
duties less burdensome and your path more
pleasant
I have now something over eleven hundred dollars
due me and there will probably another month
pass before we are mustered out congress has
also voted us three months pay proper which
would be one hundred and fifty more if we stay
until the war is ^over and if we are discharged before our
time is out I cannot see how they can construe it
to mean anything but that the war is over
I am however owing some but will have enough
with the prospects I have to feel pretty independent
I have waited to finish this and the
mail is already to go + I will write
again in a day or two
Ever your loving Husband
O L French
Adjutant 73 Ill Vol