Camp Near
Harrissons landen
July 22 1862

Dear Wife I
take this opertunitey
of writing a few lines
to you i hope thay
will finde you all
well as thay leave us
all at present
The weather continues
verey warme hear
and gustey we hav
had rain severel
eavings togeather and
like fore having more
I hav nouthing of
aney importance to
write in this letter
onley to let you
know that we are well
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I should hav wrote
before this but
i thought i might
receve a letter from
you and this would
hav answered it
everey thing is quiet
and may be fore
some time as the
armey is not fit
fore doeing aney
thing just now
thare is a grate meney
men sick in the
armey of the potomack
Direar Direar seams
to be the generel
complante with
some feaver thare
has got some complante
among the horses thay
are ding off everey
day in this rigment
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we ware out
scouting yester
day fore companey
of our rigment and
fore out of the fift
reglers thay ware
in the advance thay
draw in the rebles
pickets and captured
one of them thay then
returned and we went
into our campes agane
so that our boys had
not the pleasure of
seeing the rebles
we ware kept back
as a reserve in case
the rebles should [rade?]
on them ore atem
t flank them
we ware got up
at one o clock to
get readey we thoug
that we ware [gowing?]
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out to do something
more then comen
but it turned out to
be the same olde thing
to scout i seane one
of the finest cornefealds
i ever seane it had some
seventy ore eight eacers
in it it avredged from
five to eight feet in
hight baring corne
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wensday morning July 23
all well like fore
and no more
at present
giv my best
respectes to aney
and all the rest
of the folks tell
them we are well
from your affectna
Husband Wm Band