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May   [[underline]]1867[[/underline]]
[[underline]]22[[/underline]]  have countrymen have fallen.  We left early in the morning sailed down the James river seeing the fortifications Butler's canal & other objects of interest.  went to the hotel on our arrival at Petersburg for dinner after wh. went on carriages to the battleground.  The scene of conflict was upon a farm the owner of wh. now exhibits it at twenty five cts a head.  We went over the fortification of the reble & union armies.  saw the great hole made by the explosion of the mine prepared by the Northerners.  saw the underground passage leading to it and the wells sunk by the Southerners in the attempt to find the passage the Northerners were making  In one instance the well sunk was so close to the passage the men digging it could here the pick axes of their enemies overhead had they continued to dig a few feet they would have accomplished their desire.  I was
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[[underline]]1867[[/underline]]
^[[May]] 22  surprised to find how near the two armies lay to each other.  They were not more than twenty yds apart.  The ground was slimy & damp we felt as if it might still be wet with human gore.  "Take care" said our guide as my foot slipped  You may uncover a body "a young lady only yesterday losing her footing in the same way disclosed a corpse  He pointed out the spot to us where shreds of blue cloth were still adhering to the clayey soil  Battered haversacks & canteens still lay scattered about but the most touching traces of the past conflict were the bright green spots in the neighbouring wheat fields where the grain had grown larger & of a more brilliant tint over the graves of the fallen.  We visited various fortification union & reble and in every [[strikethrough]]I[[/strikethrough]] case found the latter very rude in comparison with the former.  We were very much pleased in one spot with
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