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In front of Petersbrgh Va

Camp of the 20th Maine Vol
                   August 8th 1864

Dear Mother  I recid your kind 
letter of the 1st and was happy to 
hear frome you but was sorrey to hear 
that you bin sick  I hope that the 
Girls wil have good health  My healt
is good at presant  I suppose that 
you have heard of our blowing up
that fort  we got deafeated at  
Mother we lay abought half 
Mild to the left we opend 
the hole lenkth of line  the 
Rebels all left the fort in front 
of us and was gon two hores then 
thay came back and fired two 
shots of Canister but thay dident 
hirt eny one hear in our lines 
the rebels thought the Devel was 
Coming for we had ten 100 lb 
Morters that threw in the fort 
in front of us hear  then we had 
Eight 80 lb on the left of us