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G. J. Huntley to Friends, June 1, 1862, page 1

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  • June the 1st, 1862 Camp near Richmond, Va. Dear Friends Having a few leisure moments this morning to spend, it is with pleasure that I spend them in giving you a description of my present condition. I am enjoying good health at this time and I hope my lines will find you all in the same condition. When I wrote my last letter we was close to Fredericksburg. In that I stated to you that I thought we would come to Richmond in a few days, and so we did. We marched from that place here and I can assure you that it was a hard march, for we marched nearly night and day. We are in camp within three miles of Richmond and in the worst place to camp I ever saw, for the ground is low and swampy and there has been so much rain that the water is standing all over our camp. I can inform you that there was fighting all day yesterday within hearing of us. It was just one continual roar of cannon all day long. I suppose it is about five miles to where they are fighting. It is General Jonson and McCle
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