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              Deep Bottom Va

                       Augt 27 : 1864

My dear Lizzie

             I received yours of

21st last evening.  I feared you would

be very uneasy about me, but indeed

I could not write sooner than I did. 

You have doubtless received two letters from

me this week | one of them Enclosing Allotments

And are relieved from all anxiety on

my account.  We left the trenches before

Petersburg at dark on the evening of the

24th & after a tedious & fatiguing night

march through Woods & fields, over the

worst of roads, crowded with troops of

all descriptions, Artillery –

Amunition – forage & baggage trains

going both ways.  We reached Point of

Rocks about 3 O'clock A.M. & camped

on the north bank of the Appomattox.

resumed our march soon after day –

light & reached this place about noon