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Assistant Quarter Master's Office,
Head Quarters 2d Div., 6th Corps.

August 4th, 1863.

Dear Mother:

How do you all
do, in Vt. this very hot weath-
er? [underline]Hot[/underline] is hardly the expres-
sion, for it here, [underline]Anywhere?
every where: in[/underline] the tent or
[underline]out:[/underline] in the [underline]shade[/underline], or in the
[underline]sun: ho-o-o-t!![/underline]

As good[underline]luck or Meade[/underline], or
[underline]Lee[/underline], or some other person in
authority, will have it our
Corps, so far as the Troops
are concerned, is at rest
now, but the men I [know?]
of the G.M. Dept. must be
as busy as ever, and now
that we are fourteen ms.
from our base of Supplies,
Warrenton Junction "tis tuff".

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I have given up all hope
of seeing many conscripts here
for the present. The most I
regret is, that I was not sent
home for them, not that I would
promise to do better than those who
went, but I should not feel that
hurry for them to get back, that
I do now.

I have no news
to write so had best close.

Please write often.

As ever

W. B. Stevens

To R. B. Stevens