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Vicksburg Miss Oct the 21...63 Kind friend

  I take this opportunity to answer your kind letter wich I received yesterday   I am well at present and hope and trust that these few lines will reach and find you all well in the first place I will tell you that we have Just got back to camp we have bin out on a 7 day Scouting expedition we did not do any fighting but I thought once we would git a figh out of them the rebels showed themselves on the top of a hill about a mile in front of us they give us a few shot and shells which come pretty close but done us no harm (turn over