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[Paper contains photo of Gen McClellan]

 

                     Washington June 12

 

Dear Sister

                     I received your

very kind letter yesterday I

was somewhat surprised to

receive your letter so soon

I had not dared to look for it

yet it found me quite well

and enjoying myself as well

as as a soldier can and that is

pretty well whill we are not

in the field or on the advance

we have been disapointed again

about getting our horses they were

bought for us and fetched to

the governnent stabels here but

before we got them General Mc

Cellan sent in an order for fifteen