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Document Type: Autograph Letter Signed
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Stanford Ky
I have a few spare moments and I thought I would improve them by writeing you a few lines I am well and so are the most of the boys in camp My arm is almost well now and most all of the rest of the boys are well but one or two Metts is so he has gone to cooking again We have the pleasantest Camp we have been in in this State about 2 rods from any tent is a small stream runs along over the rocky bed and there is a nice grove of beach sycamore coffee nut chery and so forth and it is just before sunset that I am writing Page 2 Images (pages 2 & 3): 150 DPI – 100 DPI – 72 DPI There is a good many troops in camp around 4 batterys there must be some 8 or 10,000 men most of them are mounted excepting ours and the 104 O V I 24 Ky they are all I suppose Vicksburg is taken that dispatch came to Gen Carter yesterday morning And it would appear as though the rebs did not meet with as good success in Penn as they thought they would by the papers they got the worst whipping they ever got and then it was not hard enough It appears as though the rebs had been able to raise the siege of Port Hudson but if old Grant gets there he will make them raise it again that is my opinion of that I do not charge any thing for it I must quit for supper Page 3 Images (pages 2 & 3): 150 DPI – 100 DPI – 72 DPI And supper lasted untill this morning but since that we got our daily paper and the capture of Vicksburg is confirmed with 24,000 prisoners & Gen Lee is on the retreat from Penn with the loss of 20,000 that is not as well as they have been doing and they have sent all of the available forces from Washington to intersept Lee in his retreat he has come to the Potomac and it is so high he cannot cross for his pontoon bridge is destroyed and the long iron bridge is not safe to cross and the prospect of a large battle is eminent in that vicinity and I suppose old U S Grant will go down to Port Hudson and raise the siege for the rebs for they cant do it it seems Page 4 Images: 150 DPI – 100 DPI – 72 DPI Well I must close by saying good by write soon and all of the news
H E Randall
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