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Camp of the 20th Me vols in the Field Near Betersburg
July 8 on 1864

Dear Mother
I read your kind letter this Morning and was happy to hear frome you my health is good at presant and I hope that theus few line wil find you the same we stil lay hear in the ditch in the first line of works the boys is out on picket today We have very quirart times heur hear in front of our Div but upon the [crossed out word] right of us thay have a fight Night Mother I had a letter from Henny Paul and he wrote that Clarence Hobart was dead that he Died out to Washington Mother I got that monney and am much oblig to you for it the 7th Maine lost 50 Men out 100 they lay abought a mile frome us I hont pin[?] to see them yet