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In camp 2 miles south of Louisville Ky Sept 14th 1862

Dear Mother and Father

    You may not approve if the day which I am taking for to write to you but I think when I enumerate to you the circumstances by which I am surrounded.  You will come to the conclusion that circumstances alter cases.   You will see by the date of this our battery has again changed their camping ground making the third camping ground which we have occupied since leaving Chicago.      We left Chicago on Tuesday about noon, having every thing upon the same train continuing down our accustomed track to Calumet, where we branched off toward Indianna.  We [passed?]