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− | Camp of the 20th Me | + | Camp of the 20th Me Vols |
− | July 8 on 1864 | + | in the Field Near Betersburg |
− | + | July 8 on 1864 | |
− | Dear Mother | + | 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 | + | I read your kind letter |
+ | this Morning and was happy to | ||
+ | hear frome you my health is good | ||
+ | at presant and I hope that theas | ||
+ | few lines wil find you the same | ||
+ | we stil lay hear in the ditch | ||
+ | in the first line of works the | ||
+ | boys is out on picket to day | ||
+ | We have very quiart times hear | ||
+ | hear in front of our Div but upon | ||
+ | the [ x'd 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 hant bin to see them yet |
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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 theas few lines wil find you the same we stil lay hear in the ditch in the first line of works the boys is out on picket to day We have very quiart times hear hear in front of our Div but upon the [ x'd 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 hant bin to see them yet