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	[3 words illegible in original] June 18 [1863?]
	            My Dear Childe
			                                   &ty
	I embrace this oper^  use
to say to say to you that I am
will I received a letter from
you sum days a go but have
bin to buiscy to write we
left Camp the 12th & have
bin on the march since
that [illegible in original] post once the [famous?]
[Bruce Batelfield?] a day or
two a go left Center ville
yesterday it is very warm 
& day the [words illegible in original]
whare it has a chance it
was in the Pine [scratched out word] woods
near us last night & went
higher than the trees I never
saw the roads as dustey
as they are hear & water
[illegible in original] & scarse whare we are
going is unknown to us
but I supose the rebes are



try ing to get in to
[Pen.?] or in to [M. d.?]
but I must close for
the male is to go [verey?]
soon and we may
[starte?] at any time
I will try & write again
soon love to all
from your [Farther?] in
haste
Mich 8 Ab. Peck [illegible in original] Peck