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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

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 In front of Petersbrgh Va
 Camp of the 20th Maine Vol
-August 8th 1865
+                   August 8th 1864
-Dear Mother I received your kind letter of the 1st and was happy to hear frome you but was sorry to hear that you bin sick I hope that the girls wil have good health  My head is good at presant I suppose that you have heard of our blowing up that fort we got deafeated [unintelligible word]  Mother we lay abought half [unintelligible word] to the left we opened the hole linkth of line the Rebels all left the fort in front of us and was [unintelligible word] two horses then thay came back and fired two shots of Canister but thay dident hirt eny one [unintelligible word] 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 [unintelligible word] then we had Eight 80 lb on the left of us
+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