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                    Maine. Vols
      Camp of 20th Rappahannock
                         Station VA Feb 13

                    Dear Mother

I read your kind letter to night And was glad to hear from you my health is good and I hope that theas few lines wil Find you the same Mother I Wish that I cold see you to Night as I sit hear a writing it has bin a year and half as since I left home it don’t but a few days Mother we are having fine wether hear now My Capt has gon home on Furlow of 15 days his wife has bin out hear and he has gon Home with her and our Ordely Segt has gone home after [unintelligible word] his name is Joseph A. Walker and he lives in Dexter Me Mother I want you to let Father and Colum to