Camp near Saltillo, Miss
Sunday evening
June 8, 1862"
My Dearest Maggie)))) We left Baldwin yesterday
evening and arrived here about noon today."
We are encamped in an old orchard close
to a neat little farm house on the main road.
I am inclined to think we shall not remain
for any length of time; not longer than [is]
necessary for the main body of the army to
take position farther back and to remove
Company stores. Of course this is only sur-
mise, but from appearances it looks probable.
We are about ten or twelve miles South of
Baldwin and in a very pretty country.
The water is better than we have had
since we left Corinth. We get it from
a spring about a quarter of a mile from
Camp in a beautiful little valley _ it gushes
out from the feet of a bluff in a stream
as thick as my wrist _ it is quite a romantic
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Charles Roberts Collection, Special Collections, University of Mississippi Libraries
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