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Jersey Co Ills June 25:1863 Dear Son Yours of june 5 reached us on monday but I presume it had been at the office several days as we had none of us been up I was so glad to hear from you once more and also glad to learn that you was not at Vicksburgh I had been worrying about it thought you was at Vicksburgh and they were fighting so long and the weather so hot I thought you would would all die in a pile but I have learned since that your regiment was not at Vicksburgh though if it is hot down there it is different from what it is here people are harvesting cutting their wheat and it is quite cool and no flies there has been but 2 or 3 quite warm days here this season yet