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Mann family letters, 1851-1956
1863-05-29-Page 02
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our regiment is not engagne in the fight they are kept watching the rear - but I go evry day to our Sharp Shooters and take a few Cracks at the rebs for amusement - it has become a daily business - and the boys go at it just as they would at any other daily occupation - no excitement or heat - but all Cool and deliberate I have just been to the front and saw a Capt of a battery shot through the head by a rebble Sharp Shooter - but such things no longer Shock my nerves - the sound of Canon or the whiz of a musket Ball no longer make me jump we received your letter from Helena and would have been glad if you could have come on down Asahel is well. John has not been well for some days but is geting better - the health of the army has been extremly good in this Campain and I do not believe that any army since the war commenced has accomplished so mutch in so Short a time as Grants army has done since it landed at Grand Gulf the rebbles are either out of ammunition or else they are saving it as they fire but few guns the fight seams all on one side Yours Obediently Wm Mann
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our regiment is not engagne in the fight they are kept watching the rear - but I go evry day to our Sharp Shooters and take a few Cracks at the rebs for amusement - it has become a daily business - and the boys go at it just as they would at any other daily occupation - no excitement or heat - but all Cool and deliberate I have just been to the front and saw a Capt of a battery shot through the head by a rebble Sharp Shooter - but such things no longer Shock my nerves - the sound of Canon or the whiz of a musket Ball no longer make me jump we received your letter from Helena and would have been glad if you could have come on down Asahel is well. John has not been well for some days but is geting better - the health of the army has been extremly good in this Campain and I do not believe that any army since the war commenced has accomplished so mutch in so Short a time as Grants army has done since it landed at Grand Gulf the rebbles are either out of ammunition or else they are saving it as they fire but few guns the fight seams all on one side Yours Obediently Wm Mann
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