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Near Vicksburg May 26th /63 Sun. Dear Sister, We have once more settled down into the daily routine of camp life. Roll call picket duty [illegible] Our pocket duty is diferent from hereterfore. Now it consists in acting as sharp shooters to keep the enemy from loading their artly. When I look back and think of what showers of bulets, grape, and canister have rained down around me, it seems almost a miracle how I could have escaped without a scratch. Sunday last I read your letter of the 10th inst. just in time to inclose a note in one that I was about to send to you. And last evening Johnie Burns arrived bringing one dated the 8th. both of which I read with the greatest pleasure