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by trying to do duty which there is no need
of but alass the Viz are doomed Race during
this war if it can be called so we are at present
camped on a what was once a Southerners Plantation
it is now a fenceless and barren place but is yet
alive with the poor. Invad drilling walking
[?] and [?] slate rakers as we term them
we are the advance or hold the advance post
of The Potomac There is some Thirty Thousand
men encamped within the space of Three
miles and we are the only Regimt that has
faced the Canon O Lee! if I could get permission
from some power to Draft men in Vermont
I would bring a few of Them Blk hearted
[illegible] Republicans that I have herd telling so
much of These Fireeaters [?] Their men that
would not give a cent or come within 50 miles
of a battle Field if it would save the Union
They talk if they had Command of the Army of The
Potomac they would go strait to Richmond if ever
they go to Richmond it will be after we have been
there mo I am not enterely homesick but