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August 15 Harrison Landing
5 P.M. Not off yet. We struck tents this morning and have been waiting all day for a start.
I have been reading David Copperfield. What a contemptable person Uriah was. Yet the character is true to life. Aques is charming. Dora a doll, a plaything.
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Now if the rebels push all their force up to Gordansville, they can whip Pope. Will they pursue us? It is too late now for much fighting today.
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Am in excellent health.