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you since I received any from home but I read one very interesting little document that Capt. Hodge received from that locality. On the 18th of June we (1st battalion) left this place and traveled [words missing] miles in the night to Blackland [words missing] the 1st Battalion of the 3ed Mic [words missing] stationed at that place but after a [words missing] we had too much business on our [words missing] we fell back and camped in the wood [words missing] in a few days after we fell back to [words missing] a strongly fortified town. From there our battalion went on sevral scouting expeditions in order to see what the rebels were doing. On one of these occasions we got two men wounded and one horse killed. On making these excursions we suffered much from the heat and dust. The fine particles of earth being stired up by our horses hoofs rose in murky clouds wreathing itself into fantastic shapes lodging upon our clothing [words missing] in our whiskers entering unbiden [words missing] our mouths and nostrils.