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Camp Casey

Received your letter last evening on my return from picket duty¹ but I have no time to reply except by writing a few lines as I have but little time. We have just been through inspection and in about half an hour we have got to fall in for services.… Read the rest “Camp Casey”
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Washington

My Dear Wife I take the first opportunity of writing to you after our arrival in Washington, We left New York this Wednesday morning about 10 A.M. for Elizabethport N.J. From there we took the cars for Harrisburg, PA by the New Jersey Central R.… Read the rest “Washington”
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On Picket Six Miles West of Alexandria

We left camp yesterday morning at 8 o’clock to be gone until tomorrow afternoon for picket duty. One of our lieutenants was fired upon last evening and today we are ordered ———- any attack that may be made on our line of pickets but you must not give yourself any uneasiness for there is large force of rebels within thirty miles of us and there is at least three thousand men within one mile of as ready at a moment’s warning.… Read the rest “On Picket Six Miles West of Alexandria”