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The Rebels are now on the bank of the Chattahoocha and we are on a large range of hills where we can look down upon them and there is constant picket firing but they hirt none of our men and I dare say we hirt none of them We have a good position for Artillery and Keep dinging away at them with that, a canon is fired on an average as often as once in a minuet all day. they do not use their Artillery hardly any for as soon as they open a piece a whole Battery of ours will pitch into them and Silence theirs. We can see the Church Spires in Atlanta from our present position it is about ten miles they say to the city. the Rebels tried to Stop on their retreat from Kenesaw mountain here but were soon flanked and went on again to this side of the River and near it. The fourth of July we lay still while some other portion of the Army flanked the Rebs. it was not such a fourth as some enjoyed 
(Vertically, from bottom right:-)
I suppose but never mind. I shall have a fourth sometime 
(Upside-down, at head of page:-)
if I ever get home all Sound. but I feel that I am remembered among some of the old Friends in Cattaraugua.

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The Rebels are now on the bank of the Chattahoocha and we are on a large range of hills where we can look down upon them and there is constant picket firing but they hirt none of our men and I dare say we hirt none of them We have a good position for Artillery and Keep dinging away at them with that, a canon is fired on an average as often as once in a minuet all day. they do not use their Artillery hardly any for as soon as they open a piece a whole Battery of ours will pitch into them and Silence theirs. We can see the Church Spires in Atlanta from our present position it is about ten miles they say to the city. the Rebels tried to Stop on their retreat from Kenesaw mountain here but were soon flanked and went on again to this side of the River and near it. The fourth of July we lay still while some other portion of the Army flanked the Rebs. it was not such a fourth as some enjoyed (Vertically, from bottom right:-) I suppose but never mind. I shall have a fourth sometime (Upside-down, at head of page:-) if I ever get home all Sound. but I feel that I am remembered among some of the old Friends in Cattaraugua.