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1862-05-28 Page 1
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Camp Mississippi May 28 1862 Dear Father it is with pleasure that I seat myself to answer yours of yesterday which found us both as well as could be expected and I hope these few lines will find you enjoying good health I hant got very much to write but will try and think of enough to fill this sheet there is no fighting going on except the pickets and they are all the time fighting and never hurt one another our picket lines are about 500 yds a head of our breast works and about 150 yds from the Rebel pickets the brush is so thick you cant see twenty feet in front of our pickets and the Rebels keep shooting through all the time Ill tell you how we have to do when we go on picket we take one and some times two days rations with us and we go to the post and lay down behind a tree or stump and lay there all day and all night but we dare not sleep for Price has some Indians that he sends out once and a while and we have to keep our eyes peeled for then as quick as it gets dark and if any thing stirs in front that looks like a hog we just give it an ounce ball and send it off if it is is able to carry that much lead there is one Rebel that has got a gun that
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Camp Mississippi May 28 1862 Dear Father it is with pleasure that I seat myself to answer yours of yesterday which found us both as well as could be expected and I hope these few lines will find you enjoying good health I hant got very much to write but will try and think of enough to fill this sheet there is no fighting going on except the pickets and they are all the time fighting and never hurt one another our picket lines are about 500 yds a head of our breast works and about 150 yds from the Rebel pickets the brush is so thick you cant see twenty feet in front of our pickets and the Rebels keep shooting through all the time Ill tell you how we have to do when we go on picket we take one and some times two days rations with us and we go to the post and lay down behind a tree or stump and lay there all day and all night but we dare not sleep for Price has some Indians that he sends out once and a while and we have to keep our eyes peeled for then as quick as it gets dark and if any thing stirs in front that looks like a hog we just give it an ounce ball and send it off if it is is able to carry that much lead there is one Rebel that has got a gun that
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