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Grand Junction Tenn 2 April [1863?] Dear Sister This is a [butifuly?] windy day, I expect. I havnt been out to see. The air is so full of dust I am afraid to venture out. but it is not much better in the tents for the dust will find the way in more or less, generaly more We are living in tents now and we can feel the effects of the wind and dust more than we did in our log houses. there we could keep everything as nice and clean as there was any need of. but of a right windy day and a dusty time a tent cant be kept so close to the ground but what the wind can find its way in enough to keep a little whirlwind of dust going all the time in the tents. Still we are tolerably comfortably fixed there is only six of us to the tent and the tents are almost as large as the Fremont Tent that twenty
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Grand Junction Tenn 2 April [1863?] Dear Sister This is a [butifuly?] windy day, I expect. I havnt been out to see. The air is so full of dust I am afraid to venture out. but it is not much better in the tents for the dust will find the way in more or less, generaly more We are living in tents now and we can feel the effects of the wind and dust more than we did in our log houses. there we could keep everything as nice and clean as there was any need of. but of a right windy day and a dusty time a tent cant be kept so close to the ground but what the wind can find its way in enough to keep a little whirlwind of dust going all the time in the tents. Still we are tolerably comfortably fixed there is only six of us to the tent and the tents are almost as large as the Fremont Tent that twenty
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