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� 154 June 14, 1862 Near Newbridge Chickahominy}
It is hot enough for the world to crack and right along through this section, too. I cannot help thinking of those warm passages in Coleridges "Ancient Mariner--" Wilson could repeat them to me glibly were he here.
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The enemy attempted an attack on our right yesterday, stampeding Philip St. Geo. Cooke. McClellan has gone to the other side of the view.
Am not well by any means today. This climate is debilitating.