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Opening: 46 verso, 47 recto
Date(s) of entries: December 7, 1862
Author: David B. Arthur
Content: Diary

Note: The writing on 46 verso is inverted relative to 2 verso through 39 recto.

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Dec. 7th 1862 Dear wife we are just going into Battle. but I am going into it in the fear of God I trust that he will spare me to return home again. but if it Gods will that I should fall, I fall trusting in him and you must try and meet me in heaven. D. B. Arthur Well Mary I have been in a severe hand to hand fight old soldiers say as severe as any fight that has been fought during the war thank God I am not scrached we expect to go at it again in the morning and I feel that God is with me Bintliff [i.e., 1st Lieutenant Thomas Bintliff] fell Lewis with us he is with the teams.		[This page is blank.]

 
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