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Dr [[pencil underline]] Letterman  [[/pencil underline]] ordered me here. I am much more comfortably fixed, have a furnace in our tent and the officers are very gentlemanly and very kind, and I am in all respects better than I have been since leaving the regular artillery. They told me at the Medical Directors (all strong friends of mine) that if I was not perfectly pleased and comfortable and happy to say so and they would send me back with the Batteries again.
    Well! The [[ink underline]] great battle [[/ink underline]] has begun, and we are waiting to be ordered to the front at any moment. The firing is terrific and begun at four oclock this morning, and since then one terrible roar of artillery and musketry with hurrying troops to the front and lines of cavalry and artillery going