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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 | + | 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 | ||
| + | [chester[?] when I was there I left | ||
| + | there the next morning for Washington | ||
| + | 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 | ||
| + | [?] 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 | ||
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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 [chester[?] when I was there I left there the next morning for Washington 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 [?] 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