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              <text>Good bye my comrade, friend, good bye.&#13;
     Our paths awhile diverge indeed.&#13;
Mine yet om earth ‘neath changing sky,&#13;
     Thine o’er an ever blooming mead.&#13;
&#13;
I’ll not forget thee soon, Jerome.&#13;
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&#13;
In heaven thou’lt not old friends forget.&#13;
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              <text>TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE&#13;
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Mass. No date is legible on the envelope. The following note was added on the envelope: “To be given&#13;
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&#13;
Abbie,&#13;
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&#13;
		Epitaph&#13;
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“I feel the flowers growing over me”&#13;
&#13;
(I forgot this)&#13;
“Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter”&#13;
&#13;
“He ne’er is crowned with immortality who fears to follow where airy voices lead.”&#13;
&#13;
&#13;
	Human Life&#13;
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The disappointment, the anxiety&#13;
Imagination struggles far and neigh&#13;
All human bearing in themselves this good&#13;
That they are still the air, the subtle food,&#13;
To make useful existence and to show&#13;
How quiet death is.”&#13;
&#13;
&#13;
Vow of Chastity&#13;
“In that same void white Chastity shall sit&#13;
And monitor me nightly to lone slumber&#13;
With [???] lips I vow me the number&#13;
Of [???] Sisterhood and kind [???]&#13;
With the good help this very night shall&#13;
My future days to her [???] consecrate.”&#13;
&#13;
Evening&#13;
“The good night blush of Eve was waning slow&#13;
And vesper, risen star, began to throe&#13;
In the dusk heavens silvery”&#13;
&#13;
Love&#13;
“There is not a sound&#13;
Melodious howsoever can confound&#13;
The heavens and earth in one to such a death &#13;
As doth the voice of love. There’s not a breath&#13;
Will mingle kindly with the meadow air&#13;
Till it is planted round and stole a share&#13;
Of passion from the heart.”&#13;
&#13;
&#13;
Transcriber’s Note: The following note was written on the margin in a different handwriting: &#13;
&#13;
These quotations must be from the poet Keats.&#13;
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              <text>… morning (Sunday) when we were moved again in a circuitous route, resting on a steep bank, concealed till daylight when we moved back to our old quarters occupied on the preceding day. Spent Sunday inactive excepting a march to the city, where we stood all day in mud and water, when back again to the ravine! Some firing during the day, but things were evidently “dragging” their slow length along. Remained till Monday eve. when things looked like still and mysterious, a stealthy march to the city, moving to and fro, till toward midnight we passed the river, which was covered with dirt! And soon we were at an old camp, tired, surprised and I suppose defeated! Further I know not. “The ways of war are incomprehensible and past finding out.”&#13;
	The fires of camp have weakened my eyes, so writing tires them. I must close, I would gladly keep on, fire is low but thought is busy.&#13;
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	Oh, Abbie, of this I can hardly speak. I came from an honorable and in my heart of hearts from a pure motive. Is it all in vain? Are we to be forever defeated and our labors rendered void? We have a desperate age as a brave enemy. Would some of our leaders at home were here to see! One thing is certain, I loathe war. I have no words to express the feelings that takes possession of me as I recall the scenes of the last few weeks.&#13;
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&#13;
Registers [newspapers] are duly recd. [received]&#13;
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              <text>LETTER TRANSCRIPTION&#13;
&#13;
ONE WORD WITH THEE.&#13;
&#13;
One word with thee – one sweet yet mournful meeting,&#13;
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And clasp they hand, and feel its warm pulse beating&#13;
With love’s delicious throb against my own&#13;
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One word with thee – though not of hope or gladness,&#13;
On which to muse when we are far apart;&#13;
A whisper – breathed in silence and in sadness –&#13;
To leave a hush forever on my heart!&#13;
One word – to treasure in my bosom-core,&#13;
Whether we meet again, or meet no more.&#13;
One word with thee – though it may be to sever&#13;
The last sweet link that binds thy soul to mine,&#13;
And tear from me thy burning heart forever,&#13;
To place another on its shattered shrine!&#13;
One word – to treasure in my bosom-core,&#13;
Whether we meet again, or meet no more.&#13;
One word with thee – one brief yet blissful meeting&#13;
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Whose faintest sigh can set this heart to beating&#13;
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One word – O God of bliss, and it can be&#13;
That it may be our last? – One word with thee!&#13;
&#13;
THE END.&#13;
&#13;
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The purple flowers are a field flower and pretty.&#13;
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of 1863.&#13;
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              <text>MIDDLESEX&#13;
WAR-CLAIM ASSOCIATION&#13;
Office, 4 Niles Block, 33 School Street, Boston.&#13;
___________________&#13;
&#13;
This Association has been formed to aid Soldiers,&#13;
Seamen and their Families, in obtaining PENSIONS,&#13;
BOUNTIES, BACK PAY, PRIZE MONEY, LAND, and other&#13;
claims against the Government.&#13;
Application for the collection of claims should be&#13;
made by letter, or in person, to the Attorney of the&#13;
Association.&#13;
Advice will be given by the Attorney without charge.&#13;
Upon the collection of claims, small charges,&#13;
established by the Directors, will be made.&#13;
&#13;
HON. JOEL PARKER, President&#13;
HON. D. W. GOOCH, Vice President&#13;
  HON. GEO. S. BOUTWELL, Vice President&#13;
&#13;
DIRECTORS:&#13;
JOEL PARKER	    GEO. S. BOUTWELL    D. W. GOOCH	   LEONARD HUNTRESS&#13;
JAMES S. SHUTE   PHINEAS J. STONE      CHAS. HUDSON    E. J. COLLINS&#13;
              AMOS STONE	    H. HOSFORD	              HORACE CONN	   J. H. WAITT&#13;
    CHAS. KIMBALL	JOHN K. GOING&#13;
&#13;
GEO. W. COPELAND, Secretary and Treasurer&#13;
A. B. COFFIN, Attorney, 33 School St., Boston.&#13;
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&#13;
The following advertisement for the Middlesex War-Claim Association was also located in the Cambridge Chronicle newspaper issue of September 26, 1863. It also lists A. B. Coffin as the Association’s attorney.&#13;
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P.S. Have not seen the Jacob’s.&#13;
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