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6-21-1862 p1.
\nJune 21st 1862 [Saturday]. Camp Lovell, Virginia.
\nMy Dear Father:
\n\tI haven\u2019t received a letter from you for I don\u2019t remember how long. But having nothing else to occupy my valuable (?) time, I will write a letter home. If you don\u2019t get letters from me it\u2019s not my fault. For I think I have written once about every three or four days since first moving into this camp. I believe that you write only when you received a letter from me, but when you don\u2019t receive any from me, be sure and write every three or four days at least.
\nYesterday the enemy threw three shells into our camp. Killing one man or at least wounding him so badly that he died within one half hour after he was struck. The shells fell, all three of them, within less than one hundred yards of our camp.
\nIt\u2019s reported that we will, in a few days, move to the front or as far at least as General McClellan\u2019s head quarters where as one of General Sykes\u2019s aids said we were going into a miserable, wet, swampy, unhealthy camp. If we do move but I hope we will not, we will probably be in our next camp at least three weeks to a month.
\nGeneral McClellan is having his siege train brought to the front. It has been reported here for a week or two that we are going to be sent there. In my opinion we haven\u2019t the numbers of troops that will justify an attack by our forces unprotected by siege guns on the Rebel hordes that are not encamped between here and Richmond.
\nOur camp is named after Major Charles S. Lovell, the commander of our Battalion. He enlisted <\/p>\n"},"alt_text":"","media_type":"image","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","media_details":{"width":2320,"height":3711,"file":"6-21-1862-p1.jpg","sizes":{"thumbnail":{"file":"6-21-1862-p1-150x150.jpg","width":150,"height":150,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/6-21-1862-p1-150x150.jpg"},"medium":{"file":"6-21-1862-p1-188x300.jpg","width":188,"height":300,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/6-21-1862-p1-188x300.jpg"},"medium_large":{"file":"6-21-1862-p1-768x1228.jpg","width":768,"height":1228,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/6-21-1862-p1-768x1228.jpg"},"large":{"file":"6-21-1862-p1-1250x2000.jpg","width":1250,"height":2000,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/6-21-1862-p1-1250x2000.jpg"},"post-thumbnail":{"file":"6-21-1862-p1-300x300.jpg","width":300,"height":300,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/6-21-1862-p1-300x300.jpg"},"post_thumbnail":{"file":"6-21-1862-p1-150x150.jpg","width":150,"height":150,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/6-21-1862-p1-150x150.jpg"},"single-post-thumbnail":{"file":"6-21-1862-p1-150x150.jpg","width":150,"height":150,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/6-21-1862-p1-150x150.jpg"},"home-post-thumbnail":{"file":"6-21-1862-p1-200x200.jpg","width":200,"height":200,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/6-21-1862-p1-200x200.jpg"},"full":{"file":"6-21-1862-p1.jpg","width":2320,"height":3711,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/6-21-1862-p1.jpg"}},"image_meta":{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1","keywords":[]}},"post":null,"source_url":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/6-21-1862-p1.jpg","filename":"6-21-1862-p1.jpg","filesize":3653284,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/attachment"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8546"}]}}