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�Camp of the 20th Maine Vol
in Front of Petersburgh Va
                July 17th 1864
Dear Mother
                I thought that I woud 
Write you afew to let you know that 
I am well and hope that theas few 
lines wil find you the same  Mother 
we still lay here in the dich before
                                        the 
Petersburgh  we have bin in ^ front lines 
for 25 Days and we have had to dig 
Nights  I suppose that you would 
like to know how we live hear in 
the dich   we have got boom broofe and 
we live in thehem  we ["get"crossed out] hant got eny 
sick in this Co now or we hant had 
since we came hear  Mother [crossed out letters] see by the 
papers that the Rebels have bin up 
in Md and Washington  I gess that
thay got Diserpointed this time