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		Stevenson Oct. 11th / 64
Dear wife another great day Event in a soldiers
life has come to pass we have just been paid
another four months pay. my pay and bounty
this time amounts to ($112) one hundred and
twelve dollars and I have got most all of that
is oweing me in the company So I shall be
able to send you $(160) one hundred and sixty dollars
perhaps you will not understand this money
the one hundred dollar note bears interest due
every six months at 7 3/10 per cent So in three 3
years it is worth $119 so you see it is
worth keeping the fifty dollar note bears
interest at six per cent compounded Every
six months it tells you on the back of the
note what it is worth in three years. this
money is not taxable for any taxes. if
you can get along and not use these two
notes I should be glad I shall send $(10.00)
ten dollars all in fifty cent pieces this
will be very handy for change, if you
have to sell these two large bills they are
worth a premium I shall start the money
some time to morrow. I am very much
hurried for the past ten or fifteen days
I have to draw rations every day I have
to draw rations every day because rations


are so short at this post we get full rations
of Every thing but candles and soap we dont
get any candles so you see writing evenings is
played out for the present I am well as usual
can eat all the sweet potatoes that I can get.
dont be get letters from you oftener than once
in two weeks but shall continue to write to
you once a week if possible I dont know 
of much to write the war news is good
Butler is driving the rebs into Richmond we
continue to have faith in Abraham there
is lots of McClellan men in our company and
most of them wont vote for him because
Pendleton is on the ticket. I think Old Abe
will be elected by a very large majority. If
you need money send to me and I will try to
send you some more So as to keep those two
interest bearing notes. Every six months
from the fifteenth of last Aug one of those
little slips on the end of the hundred dollar
bill will be worth $3.65) three dollars & sixty
five cents have you seeded down all the
place but the orchard and Summer fallow
for I dont want to have to pay so much
for hired help next summer I think you
had better sell that odd steer and hire your



			Oct 11, 1864

winters wood chopped by the cord John you
know has to furnish his half for I think
he can support his family as well as I can
mine    kiss the children for me and
take a share for yourself and I shall have
to bid you good by write as often as
you can acknowledge the receipt of the money
to me as soon as you get it So I shall know
about it. from your ever loving husband
  Good bye. may God bless you.  Simeon A. Howe