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Robert A. McGee Civil War Letter

Camp at Vicksburg
Aug the 12th, 1863
     Dear Sister,
     I take my pen in hand to drop you a few lines to let you know I am well at present and I hope these few lines may find you in good health. I received a letter from you and I did not have a chance to answer it then and so I put it off till this time. I was glad to hear from you and hear you was all well.
     We are expecting to be ordered down the river every day. In fact, we have got the orders but don’t know when we will go nor I don’t care for I think the business is about plaid out. They can’t hold out much longer. I seen Isaac Large today. He has been sick but he is getting better now. He looks just like his father. You say you wish I could get home. I expect you would like to see me but I am as well contented here as iff I was at home. You need not fret about me I will take care of myself. I have got along very well since I left home. I have been in the service a year now and I can look back to the time when I enlisted as iff it had been but a month ago. There was five of us came from around Bryantsburg and now I am all that is left. Three of them died of sickness and one was discharged. There is no man in the company that I knowed when I enlisted but I get along very well with them.
     We have the meanest set of officers in the business. They think no more of a private than iff he was a dog but there is some of them that will see the time they will be equal with us once more and then I pity them. For iff I don’t give some of them a black eye it will be because I never get a chance, but I must close. Write soon and often,