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�tell him for me that he will find a chaing in thing all around in living & heardships which he would haf to undergo marching day & night without food & sleep & the soul sickning sight beside the dangers [illegible word] battlefield all is heard & dangerous & it requires an iron constitusion to stand it but I as yet have not sean anything moor than I expected when I left so I am not disapointed tell him situated as he is to stay at home I did not start for plaisure but to do a duty to my country & that duty I shall have a chance to do much sooner than most of the rest after they enlisted we expect to have a heard fight yet befour they are drove out of Maryland we now are haveing a smart shower now & I haf to flee under one of the caissons that is a caridg which is used to cary ammunision in and hear I try to write on my lap [illegible word] much such priverlidges as I was[?] to have at home but it is as good as I expect whilst I am out hear and when you are enjoying all of the Blessing of a good home & the attensions of some nise young Spark remember that it is for home & friends that we are deprived of them & dairing the Dangers which seem to you in our [several illegible words] but I must draw to a close for I come to the botom did I have time I would write moor but I think hear is as much as you care to read good by until I hear from you again from your true friend Chas R Brown [illegible word] 6 Maine Battery Banks Div Washington D C Mary H Gates