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            <p>Third digital edition in TEI, August 28, 2017.</p>
            <p>Second digital edition in TEI, June 29, 2017.</p>
            <p>First digital edition in TEI, July 20, 2016.</p>
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            <date when="2017-06-29">June 29, 2017</date>
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            <date>January 1, 1986</date>
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            <dateline><name type="place">Camp 9<hi rend="superscript">th</hi> Regt <lb/>near
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            <salute>Dear <persName ref="#pers_ND1">Nellie</persName></salute>
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         <p>I received your kind<lb/> and welcome letter last evening<lb/> and it gives me great
            pleasure<lb/> to know that you are in the<lb/> enjoyment of good Health<lb/> as this
            leaves me at present </p>
         <p>Dear <persName ref="#pers_ND1">Nellie</persName></p>
         <p>Since writing<lb/> my last we have had about<lb/> the hardest time that we have<lb/> had
            since I enlisted </p>
         <p>The day before<lb/> yesterday we marched at Daybreak<lb/> during a heavy rain storm
            from<lb/> outside the Town of <placeName ref="/tei-learning-docs-bc/files/mleary_placeography.xml#place_fairfax_va_usa">Fairfax</placeName> to<lb/> our present encampment a distance<lb/> of 14 miles
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         <p>we sometimes had to wade up<lb/> to our knees in Water and at other<lb/> places we had
            to halt until<lb/> temporary Bridges were built<lb/> during the whole day it rained<lb/>
            as hard as I ever saw it Rain </p>
         <p>Just imagine how we must<lb/> have felt completely wet through<lb/> with a heavy
               knapsa<del rend="overwritten">k</del><add>c</add>k on our backs<lb/> and 18 hard
            Buiscit for 3 days rations<lb/> and them all spoiled with the rain<lb/> all the under
            cloths that were in<lb/> our knapsacks were wet wet through<lb/> and of course we had no
            cloths to change<lb/> So we had <add place="above">to</add> let our cloths dry on
            our<lb/> backs </p>
         <p>Today is fair but very c<del rend="crossout">l</del>old<lb/> and we have not had
            anything<lb/> to eat for the last 24 hours<lb/> I tell you what it is this looks<lb/>
            like soldiering with a vengeance<lb/> We shall start tomorrow<lb/> I believe for
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         <p>There are about 70,000 Troops<lb/> going, with <persName ref="#pers_GM1">Gen<hi
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            command we are to take shipping<lb/> at <placeName
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         <p>Dear <persName ref="#pers_ND1">Nellie</persName></p>
         <p>Capt Scanlin<lb/> arrived at our Camp with his<lb/> Recruits yesterday and he looks<lb/>
            very well indeed as does all<lb/> his men they are a fine lot<lb/> of men indeed </p>
         <p>Joe Scanlin looks very<lb/> well indeed he is got many<lb/> acquaintances in this Regt
            and they<lb/> were all very glad to see him<lb/> he slept with me last night<lb/> The
            Capt and Joe’s thing are<lb/> in my Tent until the Capt<hi rend="superscript">s</hi>
            Tent<lb/> is put up </p>
         <p>The Capt left all the<lb/> things that were sent in his care<lb/> at <placeName
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         <p>when he will go after them<lb/> I almost forgot to mention a little<lb/> amusing
            incident that occured while<lb/> we were on the march </p>
         <p>One of our men saw<lb/> an old Colored women about 80<lb/> Years old so off he goes and
            kisses<lb/> the old Nigger wench which caused<lb/> quite a laugh all through the ranks </p>
         <p>Dear <persName ref="#pers_ND1">Nellie</persName></p>
         <p>When you receive this<lb/> you will wait until you hear<lb/> from me again before you
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            <p>P,S, Give my respects to Mrs Scanlin<lb/> and mother Thomas Garrity Mary<lb/> Stokes
               and Daniel Santry<lb/> My Love to your Mother Mary and family<lb/> and my best love
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