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Camp of Board of Trade Battery Murfreesboro Jany 9th

                              1863

My Dear Parents

             Here I am at Murfreesboro safe and sound having been through many dangerous, [illeg] all of which [illeg on crease] me.  You have no doubt heard before now of the active part which our battery took on the late battle before Murfreesboro.   We struck tents in our old camp now in Nashville on Friday morning the 26th of Dec and marched 10 miles out on the Murfreesboro pike, and camped for the night.   We remained here till Sabbath 27 [illeg] when we moved to about 1 mile beyond Lavergne and camped for the night.
    Next day we moved a few miles farther, and the battery divided the right 1/2 of the battery going