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Vicksburg July 26 /63 Dear Sister I fear that it is a long time since you have heard from me. My last letter was written at Jackson, and as there was a mail captured comeing in, suppose that, the one I wrote has gone the way of the rest. In that letter I endevered to discribe to you the appearances of Vicksburg. Hope that it is not lost for I should hate to rewrite it. I am well, but feel very tired after our hard march which is at least one hundred miles the round trip besid a great deal of running around done at Jackson. We started from V_ on the