Now Mary these facts will startle you
 and I know that if they were not written 
over my own signature you would 
it but I know that you will believe 
every thing that I write, will you not? 
I had all all confidence in his religious 
integrity. The miserable hipocrite!
 His wife & friends will know all
 about it, before you get this, his
 wife is said to be a good & true 
woman. How will such news rend 
her poor heart. God have pitty on her 
But my Dear wife I wish you to know
 that such things do not shake my 
confidence in the truth of genuine
 religious for we are told in Holy 
writ that we are to be tried as by 
fire, there is much dross in all kinds 
of society. The Army is the furnace 
in which the pure Gold will make 
its appearance, I pray God that your 
husband may be kept from the contam
inating influences of such society
