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Camp vicksburg on a big hill between too [big?] August the 6th 1863 My dear wife i take my pen to write to you a fiew lines I received two letters from you to day and i was glad to here you was well for i do think it is a blesing to have health there was two stampes in each letter i was glad to git them I am as well as can be i [beleve?] at this time I have bin to the [32nd?] ohio most everday or Some of them would be here to See me, Scisro Cole is well and a doing well we are camped about a half a mile from our camp we are camped on a big hill, there is nothing but hills and [holow?] here and the byest holowes i ever Saw our water is a bout a half a mile up that we haf to cook with it is a deep holow