It is July 19, 1863.

A soldier from New York named Calvin Haynes is writing to his wife, Lucy, from a Federal encampment in northern Virginia.

Two weeks earlier, he had fought at Gettysburg, and he describes the battle in this letter.

Dear Wife,

We have had an awful march and a terrible battle.

A great many of our boys were killed or wounded.

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