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Springfield Mo Tuesday Jan 20 63 Dear Mother & Sisters your welcome letter of the 4th came to hand on sunday and it gave me a great deal of pleasure to hear that you were doing so well Mr Mitchell has done full as well as I expected and it has taken a load off my mind to hear that you are now out of debt. In my last I gave an account of the battle here it was the first battle I witnessed and it is a grand sight to see the shouts of the combatants as they rushed together with the fierce rattling of muskets and booming of cannon fills one with emotions not easily described. A few days after the battle Gen Meredith came through here on