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Mount Jackson, June 15th/62
My Dear Mary,
It has been several weeks since
I wrote to you & did I not know that the
news papers would keep you fully posted about
our movements since we joined Fremont. I would
feel that I had been calpably negligent in not
writing to you more frequently, but the truth is
I have not had time to write a line since we
left for Franklin, having been all the time so
intensly occupied marching night & day. Mostly
through constant rain & mud, skirmishing,
fight &c. We left Franklin on the 26th ult &
though I have frequently been in the rain from
morning till night and from night till morning wet through to the skin, my boots full of water
yet my health has been universally good. The distance
from Franklin to Petersburg is 30 miles, about half the road is
the worst I ever saw, & we were so detained by the dutch
brigades who were ahead of us with their long trains of baggage
wagons which they had no skill in getting through
the terrible roads. At noon on the 26th we had got but 6 miles
from Franklin. I there recd. an order from Fremont to push
ahead with my reigiments & batteries & pass all baggage
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