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  Mr Walter Whitman, Dear Sir,

Yesterday's "Sun" of this city contained a notice of the celebration of your seventy-second birth day; and called to my mind events which took place at "Armory Square Hospital" at the close of the War of the Rebellion.—

I had two wounded brothers there, one Colonel C. K. Prentiss of the 6th Maryland volunteers; in the officers ward, and the other, Willie S. Prentiss, private from a Maryland   Regt in the Southern Army.

They had both been wounded in the same battle before Petersburgh on the 2nd of April, the two Regts having met face to face.—

I mention these facts in the hope that they might bring the case to your memory.—

They were both desparately wounded, and lay in Wards separated from one another, and I was in attendance upon them both, passing from one to the other as their needs required, and dreadfully anxious for them.

Going into Willie's Ward one day, I found a stranger   seated by his side, in kindly converse with him.(—He had had a leg amputated—)

This gentleman proved to be none other than your self, and I have never ceased to feel deeply grateful to you for your kindness to my dear brother; for your visits to him were repeated again and again, until his death, and I know gave him great pleasure.—

My one object in now writing is to thank you for your Friendship to him with the hope that the   case may not have wholly passed from your memory, and to tell you that the lapse of quarter of a Century has not lessened my appreciation of the attention shown my brother.—

May Gods best belongings rest upon you.

Yours gratefully T. M. Prentiss See p:74 Spec: Days I remember the case well