DEDICATION.
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TO HER WHOSE TEACHINGS AND EXAMPLE MOULDED MY CHILDHOOD, WHOSE BLESSINGS AND WHOSE PRAYERS FOLLOWED AND SUSTAINED ME IN MATURE LIFE, AND WHOM GOD I HOPE WILL SPARE FOR MANY AND MANY A YEAR THAT I MAY HAVE TIME TO PAY HER A TITHE OF THE GRATITUDE AND LOVE I OWE HER,—MY DEAR SWEET MOTHER,—I DEDICATE THESE FEW BRIEF INCIDENTS OF MY ARMY LIFE. July, 1889. Septima M. Collis.