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Richmond  Thursday  25  June  1863



     I wrote you by Tuesday's  mail my beloved wife,

that is I wrote on Monday and hope that you have re-

-ceived my letter - or rather the letter was directed to

Annie- there was in the enveolpe a letter to her and

one to Mary & one to you.   On Tuesday I received your

letter of the 19th informing me of the return of Mr. Wilmer

and the arrival of Miss Lizzie - Present my kindest

regards to both.  I did not understand from your

letter whether Mr. W. saw his brother or not.  I was

extremely sorry to hear of his indisposition.

      I wrote to you my dear wife, in the letter just

mentioned , that I had changed my situation and

accepted a quarter master's place.  It is an ap-

-pointment under a recent act of Congress

assigning the superintendence of the tax in kind ["tax in kind" underlined]

to the quarter master's department and establishing

a quarter master for each Congressional district.

I have been assigned as I told you, at my request,

to the Pittsylvania District and shall probably

fix my post at Danville.  I may not and

probably shall not be able to leave here until

the  end if next week, for I find that there is

much information to the gathered beforehand as to

the duties, seeing that it is a new business.  I shall

inform you however beforehand when I shall come

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up. There will be time for me to receive a letter from you

if you will write immediately that you receive this.

You can tell me if you want any thing especially

from here and I can bring it with me. I shall

come straight to the Court House and go to Danville

afterwards. I believe I might have obtained

a higher position- that is, one that would give me a

rather higher salary, but the advantage of being with

you & seeing you and all of the beloved ones with you

frequently, overbalanced that consideration. In a

pecuniary point of view however the office of quarter

master is inferior to the one which I held. In the

first place it gives me a rank from which there

is a possibility of being promoted in regular gra-

-dation- but even as Captain, the pay is con-

-siderably beyond what I was receiving and then

I shall have the privilege of buying from the

commissary many articles of household consump-

-tion at govt. prices- sugar, bacon, flour, salt &c.

& this not only for myself but for my family. [underlined]

I shall however think of your request about sugar

& buy some [underlined] ; altho' not perhaps so much as you mentioned.

I wish to be especially presented to Miss Lizzie Wilmer-also best love

to dear Annie & Mary and to Georgy & Breck and kisses for

my little darling. I must bid you goodbye for the

moment. [underlined] Yr. R.S.

Mrs. Saunders. It is raining & has been raining all day-remember me to sevts