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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",
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    "ocrText": "22\n23\nand am now seated a few rods from the headquarters of\nand falling through them, checkered with waving shadows,\non the lawn beneath. The wound from which most of his\nGrant and Meade, in front of the tent of a hospitable young\nlife-blood has flowed has left him white and weak, but it\nofficer from your city. At this time yesterday the woods\naround reverberated with the cannonading and musketry\ndoes not pain him ; so he looks quietly round, thanking\nof the fight on the right of our line between General Tyler's\none for having written his last letter to his \"folks,\" another\ndivision and the enemy, and to-day the surgeons have been\nfor shading his eyes from the sun with the fan which, until\nbusy with several hundred wounded men. Another letter\ncomplaining of the cold creeping over him, has been used\neither to yourself or in copy, when I get back to Washing-\nto cool him and another for offering the further assistance\nton will tell you something more of what I have seen.\nwhich he does not need. He is only a sergeant, but had\njust as lief be a private in such a cause.\" He was a deacon\nVery truly and respectfully, yours,\nin his town, and \"done the biggest part in getting up a\nALFRED J. BLOOR.\ncomp'ny\" from it, the captaincy of which was offered him ;\nbut he thought he hadn't \" edication' enough to do the\n\"writin' part of the business,\" and declined. But, thank\nGod, he had \" edicated\" his sons, and one of them, who had\nentered the company with himself, had been promoted,\ngrade after grade, from the corporalship to the captaincy.\nHis wife had dissuaded him from \"j'ining\" the army at\nthat time, but after the Peninsular campaign 'he couldn't\nstand it no longer,\" had helped to get up another regiment\nin his township, and now here he was. Well, he was satis-\nfied he was in the Lord's hands, and he would die in the\nfaith that the Lord would stand by the Union and the stars\nand stripes to the end. He \"hadn't a speck o' doubt about\nit.\" He'd like to know if his son, the captain, whose regi-\nment had been in the fight with his own, was still alive, but\nhe couldn't find out; and he would give all he was worth to\nsee his wife and daughter once more. But he had always\ntold them to prepare for this, and hoped the Lord would\ngive them strength to bear the news.\nI had intended to tell you of many other incidents which\nwould interest you, but time fails. A mail carrier is about\nto take his chance of rebel scouts and guerrillas and this will\ngo with him. If you get it, I will ask you to return me\na copy, when I let you know that I have got back to\nWashington.\nI left Fredericksburg yesterday morning by day-break,"
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