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   Camp of the 20th Me Vols  
 
   Camp of the 20th Me Vols  
in the Field Near Betersburg
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in the Field Near Petersburg
 
                   July 8 on 1864
 
                   July 8 on 1864
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   Dear Mother
 
   Dear Mother
 
                 I read your kind letter  
 
                 I read your kind letter  
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We have very quiart times hear  
 
We have very quiart times hear  
 
hear in front of our Div but upon  
 
hear in front of our Div but upon  
the [ x'd out word] right of us thay have a fight  
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the right of us thay have a fight  
 
Night  Mother I had a letter from  
 
Night  Mother I had a letter from  
 
Henny Paul and he wrote that  
 
Henny Paul and he wrote that  

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 Camp of the 20th Me Vols 

in the Field Near Petersburg

                 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 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