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Tuesday May 26th, 1863 In camp 2 1/2 miles from Murfreesboro near the Lebanon pike Dear Father

The kind favors from yourself and mother sent by Mifser Durand were received about a week ago and duly appreciated.
Since then I have received your letter of the 18th inst. and also Journals of the 15th and 16th.
I should have written sooner in answer, although it is only a week I last wrote but as you will see by the heading of this that we have changed camp and have consequently been quite busy.   We moved into our present camp last Thursday morning, the battery having been attached, as I mentioned in one of my previous letters, into the cavalry service. 
              Our present camp is one of , or is the most beautiful one we have ever had since leaving Chicago.