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Camp Bovina nere the big black river on or nere the rail road July the 11th of 1863 My Deare wife i take my pen to drop you a fiew lines to answer your kind and wel cum letter that i received from you a fiew days a go I am well and all of the rest is as far as i no all [illegible] there is a fiew got the ague or chiles. We have moved a gain we moved to the rail road by a small Station called Bovina we are ten miles from vicksburg, nere the big back river we ar garden the rail road and big [lack?] bridge we have the best of times here and a nice camp we have had plenty of [rasten?] years and we can have yet all the time there is thousanndes of acrs here just striped and tore down by Soldiers we have plenty of black berries to eate and peaches so [on?]