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It is truly a great relief to me to hear that Carrie is again recovering to her usual health and spirits. I suppose that a detailed account of our movements since leaving Baldwins Ferry (Balls is incorrect) would be interesting to you . On the 15th inst. we started from the above named place and marched ten miles through a drenching rain to take a proper position again in the army. In some of the creeks the water was running nearly waist deep. But such slight obsticles as that do not scare a soldier, they go through as though it was all dry land. The next day we were pushed forward as fast as possible, the roads were in so bad a condition, that it was a hard days work to make twenty miles. On the of 17th we were again on the move by daybreak, with the report that the enemy had made a stand