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New Market May 16 Dear Col. Manly I have not written to acknowledge the reception of your last kind letter of the 6th for the reason that I have been looking almost daily for you, and you expected to have been here when you wrote before this time! I hoped very much that you would have been here last Saturday. The anniversary of the Battle of New Market 1864. We had a grand rebel Chi[[?]], graves decorated- rebel Chieftains making speeches- religious exercises in the churches or-