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yesterday afternoon the colored troops
came here & relieved a division of
whites from the 10 corps. The Rebs are
particularly bitter on the nigger soldiers.
Yesterday & the day before our boys on
picket were on the best of terms with
the Rebel pickets. We went close to
their lines & Exchanged papers with
them – gathered green corn unmolested
Yet only last tuesday three days previous the 10th corps
had a desperate fight here – losing
several hundred men - & Sunday the
Second corps fought at Strawberry plains
within Sight & about a mile from
where I am now writing. perhaps
ere you receive this We may have
an opportunity to use our pieces – though
all is now so quiet – nothing to indicate
that hostile forces are in our neighbor-
hood – Occasionally at long intervals
we hear the booming of Cannon in
the direction of Dutch bend & Fort Darling
The next night after we left Petersburg