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to see me, and has given me a fair idea of my position.
I am on the extreme right of all.
This was his last letter.
The last evening of his life was spent in entertaining these officers.
The rest must be told in the words of others.
The two letters which follow are from his cousin, Captain Rodman of the Thirty-eighth Massachusetts, and from Adjutant Loring of the same regiment.
before Port Hudson, June 7, 1863.
my dear uncle,—I wrote you and Aunt S. a few lines on the 28th ultimo, giving you the particulars of William's death on the 27th.
I think it best now to give such a connected account of matters that you may know the whole.
On the 22d of May we landed at Bayou Sara and marched towards Port Hudson.
On the 23d we encamped in an old cornfield about three miles from the fortifications.
On the 25th we encamped at a bayou, where we met the Rebel pickets, and had two men killed and one wounded,—none of them my men. On the morning of the 27th we marched to t