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time we water the horses again, to write, or spend in any manner we desire. News is just in camp that Vicksburg is ours but that Gen'l Grant is killed. This news is said to be official from Washington. I hope the former part of it is true. In regard to our battery being attached to the Cavalry service Mother has a pretty correct idea. I may have a chance to write once a week and may once a month but depend upon it I will improve every opportunity. My whereabouts will be extremely uncertain. You may hear of us accompanying some raid doings in Alabama or Georgia and I should not wonder if before long I took a trip to Richmond via Montgomery and other minor points. going from the former place to Fortress Monroe and from thence to Chicago via Annapolis - Md. [Cojnnes?]