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1864-06-07-Page 01

Camp 154th N. Y. V.Some where In Ga,, dont know where but not far from Dallas Ga,, 
Tuesday June 7th 1364
Dear Mother,
I have just received your very kind and welcome letter of May 25th,, and you can hardly imagine how glad I was to hear from you once more. Now, I am well and we are resting some I wrote you as often as I could while we have been on the march and all over most, the last I wrote to you I sent the 1st,, or 2d,, since then the Rebels retreated and we marched five or six miles and got here yesterday, we have not been engaged since I wrote you last, and I dont know how far the Enemy are from here but think they hare fallen back near Atlanta, there is some prospects of us staying here three or four days to wait till the Rail-Road is repaired from Kingston through here we have driven the Rebs faster than we could repair the road and now we have got to wait. they say it is about twenty or twenty five miles from here to Atlanta.

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Camp 154th N. Y. V.Some where In Ga,, dont know where but not far from Dallas Ga,, Tuesday June 7th 1364 Dear Mother, I have just received your very kind and welcome letter of May 25th,, and you can hardly imagine how glad I was to hear from you once more. Now, I am well and we are resting some I wrote you as often as I could while we have been on the march and all over most, the last I wrote to you I sent the 1st,, or 2d,, since then the Rebels retreated and we marched five or six miles and got here yesterday, we have not been engaged since I wrote you last, and I dont know how far the Enemy are from here but think they hare fallen back near Atlanta, there is some prospects of us staying here three or four days to wait till the Rail-Road is repaired from Kingston through here we have driven the Rebs faster than we could repair the road and now we have got to wait. they say it is about twenty or twenty five miles from here to Atlanta.