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Marine Hospital, May 20 1861.<br /><br />My dear Fanny;<br />I have a few minutes to<br />spare from my duties here, which<br />I am going to divide between Mary<br />& yourself & try to get a second or two<br />left for Aunt Mary Willcox.&nbsp;&nbsp;As you<br />undoubt know I left home last<br />Saturday week for Norfolk along<br />with the 4th Battalion of Volunteers.<br />Since that time we have been sta-<br />tioned first about 2 miles beyond<br />Norfolk to defnd a Powder Magazine<br />& now at this place within sight of<br />Nk. with no particular business<br />except to be ready in case we are<br />wanted.&nbsp;&nbsp;I do not myself believe<br />there will be much if any fighting,<br />in spite of this warlike news every<br />day.&nbsp;&nbsp;I feel sure that in any event<br />we shall come out all right.<br />Thompson I see is in Camp near<br /><br /><br />[P. 2]<br />Richmond - Tell [Perocucem?] from<br />me that he must by no account<br />think of joining any company.&nbsp;&nbsp;It is<br />enough that two of us should be in<br />the field.&nbsp;&nbsp;It is the duty [underlined] of the other one<br />to stay at home & he is the only pro-<br />per one of us there to do so.&nbsp;&nbsp;I am<br />unmarried & of course ought to go.<br />Thompson was before me in becoming<br />a soldier & the oldest is the one who<br />should stay & take care of those who<br />are left behind.&nbsp;&nbsp;Besides he is a Father<br />& I have no idea of my nephew's losing<br />his precept & example.<br />I trust quiet may be restored soon<br />enough to enable me to pay you a<br />visit before the Spring or at any<br />rate the Summer is gone.<br />Give my best love to [Perocucem?] & my<br />love too to Aunt Lockie & all her<br />family.&nbsp;&nbsp;Good-bye my dear<br />Fanny.&nbsp;&nbsp;Your attached brother.<br />J. Willcox Brown<br />write to me, 4th Battalion, near Norfolk.