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Army letters of Oliver Willcox Norton.

August 9, 2013

Army letters of Oliver Willcox Norton (Eighty-third Pennsylvania Volunteers)

Beverly Ford, Va., Sunday, August 9, 1863.

Dear Sister L.:—

A new date tells you that we have moved. We moved once before since I wrote to you and had orders to make a “permanent camp,” but just as we got things nicely fixed for a comfortable stay during the heated term, somebody discovered that there was not water enough, so we pulled up stakes and moved to the river. Beverly Ford is a little way above where the railroad crosses the Rappahannock, so if you have a map you can see nearly where our present permanent camp is.

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