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A.L.S. on patriotic letterhead, a vignette in blue showing horses pulling a wagon with caption"AWAY DOWN SOUTH IN DIXIE", 3pp. 8vo., Camp Banks, Baton Rouge, March 22, 1863, from Union soldier Theodore B. Norris, Co. F, 116th NY Infantry, to his brothers, writing in part:"...I have seen a good many new and strange sights since I left Springville and just begin to know what a soldier has to endure on a march...I had fallen behind the regt. and was marching with the last Co. when the major stopped his horse and took my knapsack on and carried it about a mile...a corporal took my gun which rested me a great deal...Dr. Lynde put me on a baggage wagon and I got along without throwing away my blanket, coat or any thing else as a great many did..." Norris also details the pillaging of a rebel lieutenant's plantation: "...the order was to use the rails for fire wood... the boys took after the sheep pigs and so much meat... one would come in with a yoke of oxen...another with a sheep across his shoulder...one would come in with a very large hog...cavalry drove in about 25 or 30 head of cattle, ten of which were killed for supper..." Norris later adds:"...we turned out at roll call and loaded our guns...put our ammunition where we could get it at a moment's notice and went to sleep...I waked up several times...the cannonade at the Fort could be heard distinctly..." Spotted foxing, else very good.

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