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I pray be able to be of assistance to him in preparing him for the [time??]

I have thought a good deal about your having to [h__??] at and go out on this campaign, and I really think it is too bad. but I fear that from this time out the troops of our army will have [??] short periods of quiet.

You see, there are so many men who are anxious to have commands who can't bear to come down to their legitimate stations. that they will certainly be trying to get up columns and expeditions and nobody knows what [??] to identify their ambition. thus keeping the service in a constant turmoil. Besides this we have got to have trouble with the Indians for the next ten years until they