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upon Christendom, to drive the
Infidels from the Holy Land.

With your ancestral ante
cedents & your own personal
merits, I expect from your present
position, great service to our cause,
and a harvest of renown to
yourself.

Accept my Dear General
with a heart warm with the
recollection of boyhood and
thoroughly devoted to the cause
of our country, the congratu
-lations & best wishes of your
early & constant friend

Wm Seawell

PS My only son 18 years old leaves to-mor
-row for Virginia, as 1st Scout in the
Yancey Guards - Col Foys Regi-
ment-11 Ala.