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Vicksburg Aug. 5th /63 Dear Brother Charlie I have received two letters from you in so short a space of time, that I feel duty bound to answer them in spite of laziness. The weather is so oppressively hot, that it is the greatest exertion for me to write, and when I do undertake it I sweat so much that I soil every thing within my reach. Our morning and evening are ocupied in drill, so that my only leasure is in the middle of the day. This morning I got a pass and went up in town, one month had wrought