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January 25, 1862 - Lyman B. Upham to Rufus R. Dawes

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ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Jan. 25th, 1862.

We are now having terribly muddy weather. All drills are omitted. Unfortunately our turn for picket duty on the outposts came in the midst of this spell of bad weather. Your anxiety about 'the approaching battle' had better be postponed. Any movement of the army is impossible. As we marched up Munson's Hill, on our way to the outposts, the mud rolled down upon the men in a kind of avalanche. They waded up the hill through a moving stream of red clay mortar. Luckily I was ordered to act as Major, and had a horse to ride.

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