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seven miles out and there we | seven miles out and there we | ||
met the enemy in a large | met the enemy in a large | ||
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�Culpeper Court House Va August 14 1862
Dearest Wife I will try to compose myself to write you a few lines to let you know how we are but you must prepare yourself for the worst I wrote to Arabine from lchester[?] when I was there I left there the next morning for Washin gton and started from there the next day for camp and was on the roads a week we arrived at Camp on Tuesday and Friday we was ordered to march at a [illegible word] north we marched seven miles out and there we met the enemy in a large force Saturday we had the hardest fought battle that has been fought while it lasted about two hours we had twenty three killed and wounded