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FROM: John C. Harrison
LOCATION: camps near Richmond
TO: Home
LOCATION: Evergreen
DATE: April 5, 1863
I will write you a few more lines this evening. It is still wet and sloppy for it sleeted and rained all night and today until about twelve-o-clock today and (it) is very cold and windy this evening and it looks like there ain't a-going to be any spring here this year.
I understand General Grant has landed two army corps on the other side of the Rappadan and says that he will have Richmond by the 15th of this month and he has landed the force that it is said that he has. We will have some of the hardest fighting here before long that (has) ever been done about Richmond and the old soldiers seem too keen for to fight, but I am in hopes that the god of battles will so direct and arrange the feelings of the contending parties that there won't be much more blood shed in this cruel war for it looks like there has been enough shed already. We expect to go next week down on our picket lines, throw up some more breastworks and be ready to meet the enemy when they come to make their forward move on Richmond.
I may never have the opportunity of writing to you any more for (there are) so many things in camps to take off men that they don't know one day where they will be the next. See, my health is not very good at present for the water don't agree with me and the weather is so changeable that I am always on the background. But, I am as hearty to eat as I ever was in my life and I think if the weather would turn warm I would (be) as hearty as Huck. So no more for the present. May the Lord bless you and keep you from all harm is my prayer.
Your Affectionate Father until (death)
J. C. Harrison
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