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Chicago Board of Trade Battery Camped near Crofs Keys Ga Sept 13th 1864 My Dear Parents After 4 long months of hard fighting, hard marching and hard times generally Shermans grand campaign has finally ended and Atlanta is ours and the army has gone into a permanent camp for a month or so, to recruit and prepare again for another active campaign.

  The particulars of the capture of Atlanta you will have in detail by this time through the newspapers and for the present suffice it to say our division of Cavalry was in the grand flank movement. 
    During the last 4 months many changes have taken place in our battery some of which you have heard of and others you have not.    About the 20th