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 Camp 20th Maine Vol
              Sutherland Station Va
                  May 8 [illegible] 1865
                My Dear Mother

I now take my pen to answer your kind letter of the 26th and And was happy to hear from you and to Hear that you air well my health is good it never was better in the World and I hope that theas few lines Wil find the same Mother we start twards home tomorrow Morning we air Goin to City Point in the morning We shal all be at home the first of June