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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" x'd out] 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 recruts his name is Joseph A. Walker and he lives in Dexter Me Mother I [x'd out word] Want you to tel Farther and Colum to