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Raley House Maryland Novem 8 1861

Dear Wife

I sit down a few moments

this eve to write you a few

lines to let you know that we are all alive and that is all we can say we left Baltimore last monday for the Raley House 9 miles from Baltimore to gard the railroad it is the most Butiful place I have ever seen in the south some nice farms and good people so far but it is south after all I will give you a discription our jouney the regement left at 8 oclock in the morning leaving me with our bagge Lyman though he must go with the regerment and leave father and be a man so they went out to the camp ground and stayed there all day without any