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Hdqrs. 5th Va Cav
July 15th 1864
Dear Ma
Another opportunity affords itself
for me to send a few lines home, although I
wrote Nancy the other day, I have decided to
avail myself of it, knowing that my letters
are
^ anxiously looked for and joyfully received,
indeed [I ought?] to consider myself of great
importance, thought of and talked about
every hour, is it me or my badness that is
[Miss...?] of course it is my sweet self. I tell
you I feel "as swwet as peach" ['as...peach' underscored] this evening,
I should like for you to see me, I'm as
dirty as a p - i - g - hog, I mean my clothes
are. I bathe nearly every day. -
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