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�Boonsville Maryland Sep the[?] 1862

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