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June 2, 1863 Hanes Bluff, Nere Vicsburg My Dear, [illegible] Wife, I once more take my pen to rite a few lines to Answer your kind letters i received from you I was very glad to here from my family once more and was glad to here you was all well but was Sorry to here you had to live in so bad a house so you rote I am well and harty but nerly wore out we have bin a marchen for Seven weekes most all the time and my [illegible] is awful sore and has had blister all over the botom I was at the battal of Snake crick nere [illegible][illegible] and then i was at Jacson Mississippi and then was at the Battal of Champion Hills and they was all hard battales and good kild but i escaped all of them.