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Lookout Valley near Chattanooga November 22,1863 Dear Parents; I received Georgia's letter this morning and was glad to hear from all of you but sorry to hear of all the sickness around there. I have not much to write about except that myself and the rest of the boys are all doing well when we have anything to do. There are 33 men in the company at present. They send out 4 men on fatigue duty each day to work on the roads, three men for picket duty and one for camp guard, so we are on duty once every 4 days. There hasn't anything taken place since I wrote my last letter. The Rebs have been quite quiet until today when they began to bang away quite lively from both sides. They act as though they didn't care whether they cracked the Sabbath. or not. Our regiment is camped yet on top of a hill. Most of the men are busy building log tents as though they intended to stay all winter, but I don't think it will be long before we sling our knapsacks and grub bag, grab our guns and move out towards the South. Quite a number of the Rebels desert to our lines each day. They say that the Rebs are going to leave Lookout Mountain and if they do of course we will to follow them. If they stay here much longer I think there will be a big fight for General Sherman with the two corps we have here. I think we have enough men to flax them. You wrote that you were going to send the weekly Standard. I don't think you had better send it in Quartermaster Summers care for his quartermasters are about a mile from camp so it wouldn't be handy getting it. The weather has been quite pleasant since we left Parole camp. The first rain we had was day before yesterday when it commenced raining and kept it up until yesterday afternoon . It is quite pleasant today. There didn't anyone in our shanty get wet for you must know we have the best shanty on the job. Oliver PS: please send a few stamps in your next letter. |
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