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Camp 20th corps near Marietta Ga.. June 2, 1864 Dear Parents; Having another chance to write, I thought I would write again, So as to keep you posted of all the movements that are going on around here. The 20th Corps was relieved by the 15th Corps yesterday noon. We then moved off about 5 miles to the right and camped for the night. We lay in the rear of the 4th Corps and could hear them skirmishing all night. The 23rd, 14th, and the 20th appear to be moving around the Rebel flank. The 14th Corps is now marching past us. The weather as awful hot, But the men appear to handle it very well. I don't know as it is anything compared to what we will be getting in a month or so from now. We are getting pretty well down in the South. I suppose we are quite near Charleston, so we can expect plenty of hot work. We havn't any mail for over a week. The last news I heard from Virginia was the Grant had whipped Lee and drove him into Richmond. Hope it is so. The Rebs appear to be doing their best to keep us from getting to Atlanta but I am sure we will be there in a few days, if there is any virtue in flanking. Flanking has got to be a big thing out this way. I have just heard the rumor that the Rebs have left their entrenchments in front of where the 20th corps has been lying for the past week. If that is so they are either going to retreat or else try to out flank us. It they try that they will have a nice time. The country around here is just the type they like to fight in. It is nothing but thick woods and underbrush, with once in a while an open field. But our Generals have got so that they understand bushwhacking about as well as the Rebs. Nearly all of the country that we have fought in is thick woods an underbrush with a lot of hills until we got to Kingston. After we got here it was as fine a looking country as I have seen down here. It didn't look much like starving them out, to see the wheat and corn fields. Corn is up about a foot, and the wheat is just in blossom and as good a stand as I have ever seen up north. There was hardly a darkey in sight. They took every one of them with their army when they fell back but a good many of them got away and come back. They are real tickled to see us. Col. Randall has just said that we can send off our letters tonight. I trust they will go through all right and the Guerillas don't get a chance to read them. Oliver |
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