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1Author:  Booker, John, 1840-1864Add
 Title:  Letter to Chloe Unity Blair [a machine-readable transcription]  
 Published:  1997 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-Bookerletters 
 Description: I receaved your letter of the sixth sence I have bin at this place an wer glad to here from you all, I would have ritten to you be fore now but we have bin posted on the out post an I have ent had the chance this leaves mi self & Jimey well an much hopeen these few lines ma find you in joying the same blesing. We have a good eal of sickness here, at least a good em meny that are un able for service We have had a very hard time sence we left Orange C H, we havent got any tents, nor I dont reaken we will have any whyle we sta here, we have to sta in entrenchments every other day an night, the entrench ments we sta in are in a quarter of a mile of the yankees, they are constant shoot ing at us an throw en bums over us, we have ent got but one of our men wounded sence we have bin here, but some are get en woun ded every day an sum cild.
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