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At Getysburg  [Gettysburg]          31
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amputated below the knee
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B J Clifford wounded in the face loss eye
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H Chesley in neck. B Hilton in shoulder.
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Ml Harm thumb shot off. J West arm burned
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G Morison side slight. G J Walker knee brused.
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Our line was drawn in just before day and lay down on the top of the hill without taking off our harness and slept a few minutes.
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July 3rd In the morning our reb was sent from the picket-line loaded with canteens, he got loss looking for water and was taken prisoner. We were moved to the right a mile and lay in reserve behind a stone wall, ready for an imergency.  There was terrific fighting thru the day but we was not called in. Those janies [?] we learned to brake and line but got their own brake.
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4th But little fireing thu the day. I wrote a letter to Frances.
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5th We advanced in line of battle a glass the fields covered with dead men and horses, up to a [?]  but saw no enemy. In the orchard by a house lay piles of loaves of bread that the rebels

Latest revision as of 18:00, 18 October 2017

At Getysburg [Gettysburg] 31

amputated below the knee B J Clifford wounded in the face loss eye H Chesley in neck. B Hilton in shoulder. Ml Harm thumb shot off. J West arm burned G Morison side slight. G J Walker knee brused.

Our line was drawn in just before day and lay down on the top of the hill without taking off our harness and slept a few minutes.

July 3rd In the morning our reb was sent from the picket-line loaded with canteens, he got loss looking for water and was taken prisoner. We were moved to the right a mile and lay in reserve behind a stone wall, ready for an imergency. There was terrific fighting thru the day but we was not called in. Those janies [?] we learned to brake and line but got their own brake.

4th But little fireing thu the day. I wrote a letter to Frances.

5th We advanced in line of battle a glass the fields covered with dead men and horses, up to a [?] but saw no enemy. In the orchard by a house lay piles of loaves of bread that the rebels