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Soldier in Battery H of the 6th Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery during the Civil War writing from various forts in Virginia to his sister. Writes in November 1864 from Fairfax County that he is enjoying the point above Bulls Run and expects to move from this place to the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Writes in March 1865 from Fort Bennett that he thinks the war will end soon, and that the few Rebels he saw at Falls Church and at Fairfax Court House were only a few gurrillaws and a drunk.