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Letter: June 13, 1862 Montgomery Alabama June 13th, 1862 Dear Father I embrace the opportunity offered by the return to our lines of Capt. McMichael, he having been exchanged & write you. We left Selma yesterday reached here this morning, leave here to Atlanta to-morrow. We hear nothing about an exchange of officers. This is an awful life to lead. The men & Lieutenants of the 12th have been kept here but are now all except the sick sent away, the privates home, the Lieutenants & non com. officers to Macon Georgia. Where we shall doubtless hall up. There has been a good deal of sickness here, of the 12 Lieutenants Merril [sic, Merrell ], Co. B, Marks Co. I, Nickerson Co. G together with six privates have died here. No one from Co. C but Sergt. Hazlett [sic] is sick but gaining so that he sits up some. I have not been permitted to see him. In love your son W. W. Warner { 159 } ...

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