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Falls Church, Virginia July 25^th

Friends at home

I
take the present opportunity
to write you a few lines
to quiet your anxiety (if such
exists) as to my whereabouts
safety &C [etc.] Some sixteen dayes [days]
ago we broke camp and mooved [moved]
into Washington from which
place I wrote you last
Our reg [regiment] has been verry [very] busy
since that time, first around
the defences [defenses] of W -- acting as scirmishers [skirmishers]
and then in persuit [pursuit] of the Rebs

After I wrote you from the city
and on the same night I
went out and in the morning
was thirty five miles away from
there Scirmishing [Skirmishing] commenced
in the morning and at Rockville, Virginia
we had a quite a severe engagement