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Dear ones at home. Before you get his you will be scolding us like every thing I expect. well we have been on the run for a long time and have had some hard times marching day & knight with nothing to eat but we are paying up now for back rations our provisions trains got up to day and we are eating awfully the Rebels are afraid to meet us. from the appearances we are in Arkansas some [place?] I don't know where. not far from the Battle ground of Tea ridge. we passed over the ground a day or two ago saw a cannon ball on the ground. about all