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Head quarters 75th Ills Vol
Camp near Stevenson Alabama
Aug 21st. 1863

Well, Dearest of Women

I am located
once more, and find myself down here
in the wilderness, in the midst of musquitoes
fever & ague, cholera, and the rankest kind
of secession, and all the rest of the "ills that
flesh is heir to" I guess.

We are camped within a few rods of,
& on the line of the Memphis & Charlston
railroad and about one mile from Stevenson
where the Nashville & Chattanooga rail road
crosses. It is a little town of at least a
dozzen old dried up, dilapidated buildings

It is one of those towns where the enterprise
is all of the sitting down kind

We left our pleasant camp at Winchester
Monday the 17th.. at 2 'clock P. M. and arrived
at the foot of the Mountains at 6 'clock where
we found Rosencrans head quarter train & the
signal corps, stuck with no one to help them
up, so we camped here for the night, and made
our Supper, of roast corn.

At 6 in the Morning our Brigade was
stationed at the bad plans stretching from
the foot to the top of the mountain 2 miles