[12] Two miles out.
Transcriber's Notes:
Original unusual spellings have been retained. Minor punctuation errors corrected on pages 12, 24, 73, and 138. The following typos were corrected:
Page 52, "everthing" changed to "everything." (...and do [everything], excepting the cooking...)
Page 57, "harldy" changed to "hardly." (...[hardly] any one is without them now.)
Page 57, "beeen" changed to "been." (... the firing had [been] very sharp...)
Page 84, the word "I" was missing in the original. (Rose and [I] did all...)
Page 86, "quite" changed to "quiet." ( The enemy tolerably [quiet] to-day...)
Page 106, "as" changed to "us." (...called and gave [us] full particulars of the whole affair...)
Spellings and hyphenation made consistent with these changes: