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must be very much larger. This proves to be one of the very hardest fought battles of the war thus far)

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For several days past I have been unwell. Have therefore ac-complished but little in the way of writing here or elsewhere.

(This afternoon I accompanied Chaplain Miller of the N.Y. 16th to the burial of one of the teamsters of our division. It was a most impressive scene.

We had to wait an hour for the grave diggers to perform their tasks as hard was the soil. Then they brought the uncoffined remains from a tent near by and laid them gently in the grave. By this time a small party of teamsters had collected around and seemed deeply interested in these last sad offices.