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Friday Eve It is hot and dusty. Billy [illegible] has not started yet, if he does not go soon shall send this by mail. All is quiet at the besieged city. Our artillery and Sharp Shooters watch them easily, if a man shows his head in the day time, he is liable to get it shot at. We are on picket, or fatigue duty every other day. Our lines are now nearly as impregnable as the enemy's. Johnie [Beem?] has this day received the document from his brother, that I spoke of in one of my former letters. He urges him to push this affair forward untill he