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Chicago Board of Trade Battery

Huntsville Ala July 17th 1863

Dear Parents,

No opportunity is offered for mailing letters but I am going to write a few lines and wait for a chance to mail it. I wrote from near Winchester Tenn, it being the only opportunity I have had since leaving Murfreesboro which I hope you have received before now. You will be greatly surprised to learn from me way down in Alabama 25 miles beyond the state line. I guess mother will think I am nearing my native place.

   We are away in the advance of our army, our battery with 2 Divisions of Cavalry under command of Maj Genl. J. S. Stanley the first Div, under Brig Genl Mitchell