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The potomack and Hour corpse Had takinge the sharpesBurgh pike 2 1/2 miles south of this pike wea tooke a Roade Ande wente a cross to the Sharpesburgh pike And the 5 corpes ware pasinge Ande they could note tell us eney thinge of the Eleventh corpese s wea traveld easte to sharpesBurgh and there wea founde thate they Hade crosste the Blue Ridege seven miles north of us Bute Here wea kepe on north Easte ande strucke the olde Batel fielde of

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laste yeare foughte By george. B. Mcclelen of Antietem croste to antetem crick ate the canell 7 miles a Bove Harpersfarey [sp. Harper's Ferry] ande wente Down the towepath to Harpersfarey ande the 9 i saw 3 iron plated cares fore to garde the Railroad ate Harpersarey frome there wea traveld to sandey Hok frome there to Bolevia and there to Burlin 3 miles from this place i founde mi Regemente incamped--on the 17 of July '63
July 18th 1863 marchinge orders ande Dide note march