Camp a litel past
  Snickers Gap [Var?] Nov
4th [illegible in original]      Dear Childe
I wrote you the 2nd and
said that the prospect was
[pritey?] fare for a fight
but that chanse is gon
			                                                y
for the presant the eneme^
ware in forse at the Gap 
but thare they are gon
it may be weekes before
we sea them we know
[illegible in original] thare is a grand
movement of the Army
and the tranes and the 
Beef Catel are mooveing
this morning more than
		                                                     e
yesterday thare has a larg^
[illegible in original] of Catel probily one
thousand ore more past
this morning I must 
close Dear one A G Peck