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    "title": "No. 80 Letters from the Army of the Potomac written during the Month of May 1864 to several of the Supply Correspondents of the U.S. Sanitary Commission",
    "description": "This item is a compilation of letters, written by Alfred J. Bloor, to several supply correspondents of the U.S. Sanitary Commission while serving in the field.",
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    "ocrText": "38\nThis will be in readiness for any courier that may leave\nfor the rear, but perhaps I may be in Washington (or Rich-\nmond) long before you get it, and perhaps you will not get\nit at all.\nVery truly and respectfully, yours,\nALFRED J. BLOOR.\nNo. VI.\nUNITED STATES SANITARY COMMISSION,\nIN BIVOUAC NEAR JERICHO Ford, NORTH ANNA RIVER, Va.,\nTuesday, May 24, 1864.\nDEAR Miss - : Leaving, yesterday morning, our pleas-\nant bivouac in the pine grove near St. Margaret's Church, a\nK\nquaint, hundred-year-old building, with a wing jutting out\nfor the use of the negroes while worshipping-our weary\nmarch, under the burning sun and over the dusty roads of\nVirginia, had brought us to the close of the third day, when,\nlast evening, about five o'clock, we halted in a ploughed\nfield, (\"as usual,\" the drivers angrily remarked,) and I had\njust made myself as comfortable as possible on the seat of\nthe staff-wagon I had been riding, and had begun a letter to\nyou, when I observed that the intermittent cannonading\nwhich had accompanied us throughout our march was suc-\nceeded by a steady booming, accompanied by an unceasing\nfire of musketry, and on looking up I perceived an unusual\nstir and excitement around me. Speedily discovering what\nwas the state of the case, I made my way through a strip of\nwoods into a field beyond, where I found a large body of\nreserve troops waiting the word of command to advance\ntowards the scene of action. This was presently given; and\nas they filed off to the right, I joined them, and found myself\nin the road from which my wagon had a short time before\nturned aside. The fields on the right side of this road were\nfilled with large bodies of troops, screened from the enemy"
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