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Falls Church May 29^th/64 [1864]

Dear Sister, and friends at
home some time since I received
a letter from you which is not yet
answered I knew you would hear
from me by way of Sister G & Brother P
as I had written to them since receiving
yours, so that you would feel no
uneasiness for me Today I am on
guard and will employ my leasure [leisure]
time in writing to you There is a jeneral [general]
inspection in progress today and as I write
the Reg [regiment] is passing in front of the guards
tent in column I consider myself fortunate
in escaping so great a bore as a
jeneral [general] inspection always is They may
be usefull [useful], but my eye for military
purposses [purposes] is not fine enough to see
the point I feel a shame come over
me when I realise [realize] that our brothers in
arms are pouring out their blood like
rain, we are forced for the sake of
show and to gratify the vanity of