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Bend [illegible] Camp [Nere?] Milikens April the 20th 1863 My Dear wife i a gain take the pen to rite you no where we are and where we are and how we are I am well and [bully?] what is out i think all of the boys is well as far as i no that is here i am sorrow to tell you that i am clost to vicksburg and [illegible] a big fite soon we are in Louisiana on the bankes of the misippia river the OH regment and the 30 Illinoise and the [illegible] ohio gon or most all gon to bild roades or cut a road threw so we can git at vicksburg some sais our [illegible] has got eightteen or twenty thousand serrounded on this side of the river if that be so we will have them soon or they will have us but it is im posible for them to take us for we have one hunderd and fifty thousand here