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Camp near Morton, Miss. July 23d 1863 Dear Lizzy,

In our [?] of the ? ?, & disturbance generally not answered a long letter you wrote a few weeks ago.  ? a letter written since later July 3, but which I gave? up towards the Big Black River

   from Vicksburg to
 to believe the place that

is with about 2 ? men to defeat an intrenched ? of not less than 78 - and by me alone ? ? ..regretable writing? country? with roads blockaded to attack our army in ? ? with the ? Black in ? but a short distance, & but a ? ? about 8 or 10 feet wide to cross the whole army on in the event of a repulse, and nothing ? to help, would have been a task ? have to