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1864-01-25 Page 1
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the 28th 1864 Pocahontas Tenn Monday morning 8am Dear father and mother I concluded to write you a few lines to let you know that we are well to hope these few lines will find you the same I expect this will be the last you will get from us here as we will leave here in a few days. The sick belonging to the Regt leaves this morning for Memphis We will leave tomorrow or next day We are going down the river again where to I cannot tell The col has come back he saw Gens Sherman and Heilburt & told them the promises he had from Tuttle in reference to going down and they told him that there was one of the grandest campaigns of the war about to commence & that it would require all the troops in this department to carry it through he also told the col that we would go down the river and strike across the country & subsist mostly off of the county also
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the 28th 1864 Pocahontas Tenn Monday morning 8am Dear father and mother I concluded to write you a few lines to let you know that we are well to hope these few lines will find you the same I expect this will be the last you will get from us here as we will leave here in a few days. The sick belonging to the Regt leaves this morning for Memphis We will leave tomorrow or next day We are going down the river again where to I cannot tell The col has come back he saw Gens Sherman and Heilburt & told them the promises he had from Tuttle in reference to going down and they told him that there was one of the grandest campaigns of the war about to commence & that it would require all the troops in this department to carry it through he also told the col that we would go down the river and strike across the country & subsist mostly off of the county also
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