Thomas Lincoln Casey to General Silas Casey, December 6, 1866: Image #2

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something to do. The exigencies of trade or of finance might operate upon the company quite as directionally as a fire. and while these things might not happen, still the very chance that they were probable would harrass and annoy me to such an extent, as to render me constantly anxious and unhappy. I have been too long accustomed to a certain income and fixed recompense and after the man has been in service as long as I have, I expect he is much happier in the army, than out of it.

Mr. Caswell gives up the farm the 25th of March next which will complete his ten years. he was tenant there. He has accumulated enough while upon it to buy a piece of ground at the Narragansett pier of which he is creating a boarding house capable of holding ten or so boarders which business he