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Chattanooga, Sept 23rd /63 Dear Father An opportunity is offered of sending letters and I embrace it. We have been marching all over the north western part of Georgia and N. E. of Alabama and arrived in Chattanooga yesterday. I have enjoyed tip-top health, although we have been marching night and day and only one thing has troubled me. The news of mothers illnefs in your letters of Aug 29th and Sept 8th. I do hope she is well before now. You no doubt have heard that a battle is