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Boonsville Maryland Sep the 18, '62

Kind Friend It has not bin long Since I wrote you but it has sean [sic] many changes we after leaving the heights joined our battery and have had a long & wearisome march Saturday last. Today is Thursday we was ordered to halt & inspect our [?] and have every thing ready for actsion [sic] we then could hear the roar of cannon & Sunday we neared them so as we could hear the roar of musketry and [illegible word] at night we or that morning for we marched from early morning until 3 o'clock the next morning without stoping [sic] to feed our horses it was a fearsed one of & encamped within half a mile of the battlegrounds of South Mountain whair [sic] brave men fought and fell by the hundreds, it a desperate Strugle [sic] the next morning. Just a few steps from whair [sic] we camped they began to dig a trench to bury

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 Kind Friend
-It has not bin long Since I wrote you but it has sean many changes we after leaving the heights joined our battery and have had a long & wearisome march Saturday last Today is Thursday we was ordered to halt & inspect our [one illegible word] Regments and have every thing ready for actsion we then could hear the roar of cannon & Sunday we neared them so as[?] we could hear the roar of musketry and [illegible word] at night we or that morning for we marched from early morning until 3 o'clock the next morning without stoping to feed our horses it was a feared one of[?] encamped[?] within half a mile of the Battlegrounds of South Mountain whair brave men fought and fell by the hundreds it a desterate Strugle the next morning just a few[?] steps from whair we camped they began to dig a trench to bury
+It has not bin long Since I wrote you but it has sean [sic] many changes we after leaving the heights joined our battery and have had a long & wearisome march Saturday last.  Today is Thursday we was ordered to halt & inspect our [?]  and have every thing ready for actsion [sic] we then could hear the roar of cannon & Sunday we neared them so as we could hear the roar of musketry and [illegible word] at night we or that morning for we marched from early morning until 3 o'clock the next morning without stoping [sic] to feed our horses it was a fearsed one of & encamped within half a mile of the battlegrounds of South Mountain whair [sic] brave men fought and fell by the hundreds, it a desperate Strugle [sic] the next morning. Just a few steps from whair [sic] we camped they began to dig a trench to bury