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Rear of Vicksburg, June 21st 1863 Dear Sister Sallie Thursday last I received your long letter of the 7th inst. Am glad to hear that the mails going North are getting so that you can receive letters regular again. Yesterday there was heavy fireing by the Artillery. We were not called upon. The impression here is that there was a charge made on the right. Logans Men, the next division on our right could be seen yester afternoon digging on the bank of the highest fort in the whole line; it is called the Key to Vicksburg, if our men can once get in side