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as all the scenery was ruged rocky hills all around us. I had laid down by the camp fire completely tired out when news by the Gen. [illegible] came that there was letters for the 97th and sure enough I was a lucky one that letter did more toward resting me that a whole nights sleep. It was nearly night before I thought of it being Sunday then I began to think what I had been doing on Sunday since I had been in camp, and found that I had been on duty all but one exception. On monday we marched 15 miles over a ruged mountain country. After marching over fifty miles we are within 35 miles of Covington by a good level turnpike