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At the house where I stopped, I find a copy of Herodotus translated by Cary, also a brush brown which I have been needing so much lately and a chair, which I purchase of the negroe in charge.
Today I send letters north.
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I hardly know where we are now other than it is a pleasant spot somewhere in the woods on the road to New Bridge. The negroes and country people report us distant about seven miles from Richmond. We reached here two days since after a most tedious march. We sent out a reconnoitring party yesterday and obtained most important information concerning the enemy, and their probable