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[begin vertical writing] With the exception of Stanton none of my most intimate friends were struck The 97 has covered herself with Glory [vertical writing end] In Hosp. Near Blakely April 10th /65 Dear Sister I wrote you a long letter yesterday My expectations and plans I laid down in that were flustrated a few minutes after the letter had been mailed, by an order to fall in, then I saw that there was a charge to be made. We Charged their works and took them although I did not get inside the works, for I was struck by a musket ball in the calf of the leg when within about twenty steps of their works, the ball passing through the fleshy